Andy Kessler
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Andy Kessler is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field, and has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Spectator. He was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned $100 million into $1 billion between 1996 and 2001.
From 1979 to 1984, Kessler worked for AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined PaineWebber in New York as an analyst of the electronics and semiconductor industry. In 1989, Andy Kessler joined Morgan Stanley as a semiconductor analyst before moving to San Francisco in 1993. There he worked for Unterberg Harris as an investor. Right now he lives in California with his family of a wife and four kids.
[edit] Books and Writing
- The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor (New York Times Business Bestseller)
- Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and Me
- Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score
