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    'former hedge fund manager' - anyone surprised? Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on May 10, 2024, 8:11 pm, in reply to "found it..."

    Check out the cutesy story I bolded at the end. I'd run a marathon to get away from a sh!tstain like this...

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    https://www.andykessler.com/about.html

    Andy Kessler is a former hedge fund manager turned author who now writes on technology and markets.

    His first book Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and me was published in March of 2003, followed by Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score , published by HarperCollins in September of 2004. Running Money was added to the New York Times Business Bestseller list on November 7, 2004. Then came How We Got Here which you can find as a free PDF here.

    July of 2006 saw the release of The End of Medicine , about Silicon Valley invading medicine and doing to doctors what ATMs did to tellers.

    Andy is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page and has also written for The New York Times op-ed page, Wired, Forbes Magazine, The Weekly Standard, LA Times, The American Spectator magazine and techcentralstation.com and thestreet.com websites. He has even written a piece of fiction for Slate - bet you can't find it.

    Andy Kessler was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provided funding for private and public technology and communications companies. Private investments included Real Networks, Inktomi, Alteon WebSystems, Centillium and Silicon Image.

    In the early '80's, Andy spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer, programmer, and spender of millions in regulated last minute, use it or lose it budget funds. In 1985, he joined PaineWebber in New York, where he did research on the electronics and semiconductor industry and was an “All Star” analyst in the Institutional Investor poll.

    In 1989, Andy joined Morgan Stanley as their semiconductor analyst, and following in the footsteps of Ben Rosen, he added the role of technology strategist and helped identify long-term, secular trends in technology. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco to join Unterberg Harris, where he ran a private interactive media venture fund, with investments that included N2K, Exodus and Tut Systems.

    Andy received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1980 and an MSEE from the University of Illinois in 1981. K-12 was at Bridgewater-Raritan High School East in New Jersey. Every morning for 13 years, while heading out for the school bus, Andy looked to his left, up the hill, and checked out the flag flying at Middlebook Encampment, where George Washington and his troops spent winters watching the British troops in New Brunswick. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Betsy Ross 13 star flag as the official flag, and it flew for the first time at the Middlebrook Encampment. Pretty cool.

    He lives with his wife and four sons in the Bay Area and enjoys basketball, hiking, skiing, biking, Pininfarina designed moving objects and reminiscing about raising Siberian Huskies.

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    Getting trounced on nitter at least:

    https://nitter.poast.org/andykessler/status/1787273417441661008#m

    Andy Kessler @andykessler
    WSJ: A Plan for Palestinian Prosperity
    wsj.com/articles/a-plan-for-… The April 13 Israeli skeet shoot—knocking out Iranian drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles—was a technological tour de force. @Israel #Gaza_War @POTUS #MarshallPlan
    Opinion | A Plan for Palestinian Prosperity
    Eventually, Israel should build weapons factories in Gaza and the West Bank.
    wsj.com

    Evrim Rızvanoğlu @RizvanogluEvrim
    Are you serious?!

    Layla 🪬 @itslaylas
    Have you ever met or talked to a Palestinian? asking palestinians to build the bombs that kill our relatives is cruel.

    AG @lavidaag
    This deserves the low engagement, one of the most asinine takes I’ve ever seen. Yes, the Israelis would definitely give Palestinians jobs to build the weapons that kill them. How brilliant.

    Esther @k_thos
    this idea has parallels to german actions during WW2.
    [quote tweet: Meezy @jomeezy617 May 8
    During WWII, Nazi Germany forced occupied people to work in weapons factories to kill their own people.
    You can read more about your suggestions here:
    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/forced-labor-an-overview ]

    Robert Arctor @DonArctor
    How did you write this with a straight face?

    Stepped On Cocaine Enthusiast @holisticbong
    Wow Andy what a modest proposal, let's get all the newly created orphans to work in the factories as well!

    🌹🏳️‍🌈 @rojurrr
    lmao you’re disgusting

    M @Monophilia1
    Hey @andykessler , did you get this despicable idea while browsing Holocaust encyclopedia?

    👑@HalaMadrid_NYC May 7
    Zionist trash

    Ted Kottler, Bookseller @TKottler59216
    Y o u s h o u l d b e s t r a p p e d t o a m i s s i l e

    AG @AG5818690362508
    Potentially the worst take written on the conflict, so far. Breathtakingly bad.

    Bullwark @MattOben
    You're entirely to comfortable talking like this my man

    👑 @HalaMadrid_NYC
    Shut the fuck up zionist bitch

    Avatar @GiorgioBzh
    Asshole 🖕 @andykessler Mange tes morts.

    Dawūd داوود 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @moochael
    Andy, are you a real person or a comic book character? You belong in the Hague and I’m saying that because I’m a kinder person than you. The last thing Palestinians need is a war criminals help to attain justice and prosperity. We have enough of that already.

    Stop Cop City @TacoThunder5
    Goddamn psychopath

    Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod
    Just when you think you've seen the worst possible take, the Wall Street Journal prints an all-timer.

    ...etc.

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