The Money Trap

Outline

The Money Trap (2024) is an insider’s account of the world of high finance and the global technology boom. Alok Sama draws on his years as a senior executive working alongside some of the most powerful investors in the technology industry, describing huge deals, bold bets, and the pressures and illusions that come with enormous wealth. The book offers a rare, candid look at money, ambition, and power.

• Alok Sama writes from inside global tech finance, drawing on years as a senior executive beside some of the industry's most powerful investors.
• The book describes huge deals and bold bets, showing how money moves in the global technology boom.
• Enormous wealth brings pressures and illusions of its own, not just comfort or security.
• High-stakes finance tests a person's ambition, integrity, and personal values.
• The book offers a candid, rarely seen look at how money, ambition, and power work together.

Alok Sama is a finance executive and author who spent many years in investment banking before serving as a senior executive at SoftBank, where he worked on some of the largest technology investments in the world. He writes about finance, technology, and the human side of ambition. The Money Trap is his first book.