The Billionaire's Apprentice - Softcover

Anita Raghavan was born in Malaysia but came to the United States as a young girl. She attended Cheltenham Ladies College in England. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal and became the London Bureau Chief for Forbes in 2008. Currently she is a contributor to New York Times Dealbook and Forbes.

"Thanks to author Anita Raghavan's intrepid reporting, THE BILLIONAIRE'S APPRENTICE combines the drama of the federal government unraveling an insider trading ring with the historical sweep of immigrants rising from nothing to the corridors of corporate power."
―Bethany McLean, co-author of the bestsellers The Smartest Guys In the Room and All the Devils Are Here


"Anita Raghavan's journalistic and writing skill comes through on every page of THE BILLIONAIRE'S APPRENTICE. I couldn't put it down; it's a true story that reads like a thriller."―William D. Cohan, bestselling author of The Last Tycoons, House of Cards, and Money and Power

"THE BILLIONAIRE'S APPRENTICE is that rare work of nonfiction that follows an ambitious hero as he climbs to the pinnacle of power inside the top boardrooms of corporate America, gets seduced, and falls in a spectacular insider trading scandal. This is a modern-day Greek tragedy that plays out among the upper echelons of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the global business elite. Doggedly reported and utterly compelling."―Bryan Burrough, bestselling author of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Rich


"Raghavan excels with her account . . . She provides an insightful account of South Asian immigration to the U.S. since the 1960s and shows how relations established in India's elite education system provided some of the ties that bound the conspirators together."―Kirkus

"Through meticulous research, copious history, vivid characters, and entertaining prose, Raghavan weaves together many different worlds, eras, and personality types to deliver a compelling view of the multi-cultural politics of today's Wall Street."―Huffington Post

"Riveting."―Bloomberg

"The best form of journalism, an early draft of history."―The New York Times Book Review


"Anita Raghavan's THE BILLIONAIRE'S APPRENTICE [is] a riveting account of the takedown of Raj Rajaratnam...[Ms. Raghavan] has written a briskly paced account full of fascinating detail...this book deserves to be on the shelf of anyone lusting after a little Wall Street schadenfreude this summer."
―Wall Street Journal

"[a] deeply researched, fascinating and well-written book."
―Financial Times


"In THE BILLIONAIRE'S APPRENTICE Raghavan provides readers with the best account yet of Rajaratnam and his Indian American 'mafia' - who they were, what they did and how they did it."―Washington Post