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AMY GRIFFIN has always been a HIGH ACHIEVER-a competitive RUNNER turned successful VENTURE INVESTOR who has made it her BUSINESS to SUPPORT other WOMEN. But as she details in her POWERFUL new MEMOIR, The Tell, there are SOME THINGS that not even she could OUTRUN.

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Several years ago, the superstar literary agent Cait Hoyt asked to be introduced to Amy Griffin via a mutual friend. Hoyt represents the likes of Kerry Washington, Hoda Kotb, and Britney Spears, and she wanted to work with Griffin too, sensing that the powerhouse investor had a story to tell. The two met over Zoom, and Hoyt made her pitch: Griffin's G9 Ventures has backed such beloved consumer products as Bobbie baby formula, Starface zit stickers, On running shoes, and several shelves worth of SKUs at Sephora, from brands like Kosas, Saie, and Westman Atelier. Each summer, Griffin hosts a summit for founders at her Hamptons home that's so starry, the Daily Mail has been known to cover it. Hoyt wondered whether Griffin was interested in writing a book about women in business. Surely she had the requisite material.

"I looked at her and said, 'I think there are a lot more qualified people to write a book about women in business. What I have to write about is more important than any other story I could tell, and I've already written it," Griffin remembers now. "She was like, "What?"" Griffin went on to explain that she had a complete manuscript sitting on an old laptop. It was drawn from journals she had kept during a recent period of harrowing personal revelation, and no one else had ever read them.

Griffin later told her husband, the hedge-fund founder John Griffin, that she had sent it. All of it. No redactions, no edits. "He goes, 'What did you do?" " Griffin recalls. "I said, 'I don't know.

I'm just trusting the universe.' I remember feeling like my life was going to change." Hoyt devoured the pages, and then she came back to Griffin: "She said, 'I think this could help a lot of people."