In Screw U: A Memoir, Jim Masiello bares his soul in a raw and unfiltered account of his experiences with the IRS as an entrepreneur. From the first page, the first sentence even, I was invested. Something about his journey from such difficult times to absolute success is nothing short of remarkable, and his revelations about the darker side of the financial industry are eye-opening.
I don’t have much knowledge about the financial industry personally. So, I don’t know what it was that made me pick up this book. I really liked the title, and once I opened it I saw that same authenticity and honesty reflected within the pages. He doesn’t sugarcoat the challenges he faced or the mistakes he made along the way. As someone who has faced my own share of struggles, I found solace and inspiration in Masiello’s words. Screw U is a book that will stay with me in my mind. Highly recommend it.
Screw U: A Memoir
Most people’s worst nightmare is a problem with the IRS or the bank. Jim had them both coming after him for tens of millions of dollars.
Jim Masiello is widely known as the founder of the insurance giant SIAA, the Strategic Insurance Agency 
Alliance, but what people don’t know is that along the road to building his company Jim had to fight through a devastating situation with the IRS and fend off a flurry of improbable threats from big banks looking to bring him down.
Far from the professional and cordial experiences most people have with their banks, Jim has stories to share from his time in the insurance and real estate worlds that shed light on the darker side of the financial industry. When millions of dollars are on the line, things turn ugly fast, but this scrappy boy from the wrong side of the tracks had a mouth to match and wasn’t afraid to let anyone have it.
Screw You is the true story of a man who didn’t have anything handed to him and had to work hard, often against outright belligerence and jealousy, reaching the highest echelons of the business world in the process. Whether it’s tense negotiations, courtroom drama, shocking letters announcing millions of dollars in debt out of thin air, or the jaw-dropping chicanery of banking executives, Jim Masiello has seen it all.
