A year before Carson Block launched Muddy Waters Capital, his hedge fund firm, he started trying to line up a prime broker — an investment
Author: Michelle Celarier
THE MAN WHO ABANDONED VALUE – AND FOUND TESLA
Ten years ago, Arne Alsin quit trying to be, as he puts it, “normal.” Alsin, the founder of investment firm Worm Capital, had an abundance
The Dark Money Secretly Bankrolling Activist Short Sellers
John Fichthorn had been in the hedge fund business for more than 20 years when a half-hour phone call with a stranger put him on
Egregious Founder Shares. Free Money for Hedge Funds. A Cluster***k of Competing Interests. Welcome to the Great 2020 SPAC Boom
It’s a brilliant, blue-sky afternoon in mid-August, and Bill Ackman is enjoying being, well, Bill Ackman. Maybe it’s the sun. Or maybe it’s the aftermath
Henry Blodget Was Banned From the Financial Industry. So He Built a Financial Media Empire.
Shortly after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos headlined a $5 million equity round in the scrappy young media brand Business Insider in 2013, its editor and
The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya
Among the gilded denizens of Silicon Valley, it’s known as the “Who cares? rant.” It began when Chamath Palihapitiya argued, in a CNBC interview on April
