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the top of a corporate pyramid. Seth
probably wouldn’t have made it as a
sales manager. But he is one of the
great investors of our time.”
Similarly, in his book on the run-up
to the 2008 crash, The Big Short, Michael
Lewis introduces three of the few
people who were astute enough to forecast
the coming disaster. One was a
solitary hedge-fund manager named
Michael Burry who describes himself as
“happy in my own head” and who
spent the years prior to the crash alone
in his office in San Jose, California,
combing through financial documents
and developing his own contrarian
views of market risk. The others were a
pair of socially awkward investors
named Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai,
whose entire investment strategy was
based on FUD: they placed bets that
had limited downside, but would pay
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