Have you picked up your copy of "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banker?" It's the book by Amit Chatwani, who is better known as the proprietor of the Leveraged Sellout blog. A couple of weeks back we ran an excerpt of the book, which is written in the voice of an egomaniacal banker that will be familiar to LSO readers.
As DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin pointed out, it's like a blast from the last deal boom. There are no layoffs, no bank failures, just ballers, bottles and babes. "If you can get over the juvenile humor and some cringe-worthy moments, you can transport yourself back to pre-2007. It might make you smile at the beach this week," Sorkin wrote.
And now Chatwani has produced a video to accompany the book. It's an epic hip-hop battle between a consultant and an investment banker. After the jump, watch the suits and the khakis throw down.
Posted by onetwo , Aug 28, 2008 4:03PM
JC - I get fired and you snipe me like this (check my site's timestamp). I challenge you to jack and jack, followed by more jack tonight.
For shame!
Posted by John Carney , Aug 28, 2008 4:06PM
Sorry man! I didn't notice it was up on your site already. Shots on me tonight.
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:08PM
Wack. Like bookbags packed on your back.
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:10PM
wow...I went to college with the BCG consultant...hilarious
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:15PM
They should play the Sham-Wow commercial
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:20PM
My guess is that all this "Living Large" has nearly run its course.
In its typical, pain-inflicting fashion, Wall Street is now "wringing out the excess".
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:21PM
Did that dude just ask him to a jack off?
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:25PM
Gawd, is Sorkin ever prissy.
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 4:31PM
Intensity is defined as coming in first and third in a jack-off contest.
Enron traders allegedly excelled at such contests.
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 5:22PM
Why is there an Accenture guy in the consultant group?
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 5:34PM
@ 4
Thats funny I went to college with the hot dog guy...hmm
Posted by Joseph di Jersey City , Aug 28, 2008 10:01PM
Being a consultant with mostly investment banks as clients I got a kick out of that video. Lots of stereotypes but all with a kernel of truth. For example, I work until the work is done* but if it's done by 5-6 I leave. Damn it feels good to be a consultant.
TGFD: Better to have "lived (and earned) large" for a time than not having done so.
*at a "boutique" consulting firm; large firm experience may vary
Posted by guest , Aug 28, 2008 10:41PM
just read the book. hilarious. thank god its not true, i almost vomited when i pictured wall street that way.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 9:23AM
im so lame, i put this on my ipod
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 9:43AM
"...[wall street] kids making movies 'bout themselves you know they don't give a fuck about anybody else..."
self-absorption-on-crack alert.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 11:32AM
This is why people hate both of these groups.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 11:48AM
This guy stopped being funny after the first 10 posts.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 11:48AM
This guy stopped being funny after the first 10 LSO posts.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 11:48AM
This guy stopped being funny after the first 10 LSO posts.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 11:59AM
@17. And you stopped being funny after your first post.
Posted by guest , Aug 29, 2008 1:57PM
Throwing the mouse on his chest while he's down...amazing. Consultants wouldn't know SHIFT + CTRL + [ if it hit them in the face.
Posted by guest , Aug 30, 2008 3:28PM
Well, if we're having this particular pissing contest, I was college roommates with the BSG guy, went to middle school with the DP, and went to preschool through 3rd grade with the hotdog guy. And none of those people have ever attended any school together. Beat that.