Andy Kessler

1958

Andy Kessler has worked for about 20 years as a research analyst, investment banker, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The American Spectator, and Thestreet.com. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1980) and an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (1981). His primary schooling took place at Bridgewater-Raritan High School East in New Jersey. From 1980 to 1985, Kessler worked for American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Labs as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined Paine Webber 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, until starting Velocity Capital with Fred Kittler. From January to March 2003, Kessler wrote and successfully self-published a book, Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder, about working with Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, and Mary Meeker, after hearing that traditional publishing houses would take over a year to publish lieutenant Kessler"s 2010 novel Grumby takes him into the world of super-hackers. The book is notable among books by well-known authors for being released first on Kindle and then in hardcover. This allowed Kessler to include a fictional cause for the flash-crash, which occurred just prior to publication, in the plot. Among his many other writings, in an April 26, 2007 guest column in The New York Times, entitled "Trust Maine", Kessler wrote in part: "There are plenty of things I don’t trust – like Wikipedia. I’ve watched my 15-year-old son and his friends take turns editing the page for the animated film "Land Before Time," flipping the gender of the character Littlefoot from he to she and back.".

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University of Illinois system. Cornell University; Cornell University College of Engineering.

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Andy Kessler has worked for about 20 years as a research analyst, investment banker, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The American Spectator, and Thestreet.com. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1980) and an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (1981).

His primary schooling took place at Bridgewater-Raritan High School East in New Jersey.

From 1980 to 1985, Kessler worked for American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Labs as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined Paine Webber 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, until starting Velocity Capital with Fred Kittler.

From January to March 2003, Kessler wrote and successfully self-published a book, Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder, about working with Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, and Mary Meeker, after hearing that traditional publishing houses would take over a year to publish lieutenant

Kessler"s 2010 novel Grumby takes him into the world of super-hackers. The book is notable among books by well-known authors for being released first on Kindle and then in hardcover. This allowed Kessler to include a fictional cause for the flash-crash, which occurred just prior to publication, in the plot.

Among his many other writings, in an April 26, 2007 guest column in The New York Times, entitled "Trust Maine", Kessler wrote in part: "There are plenty of things I don’t trust – like Wikipedia.

I’ve watched my 15-year-old son and his friends take turns editing the page for the animated film "Land Before Time," flipping the gender of the character Littlefoot from he to she and back.".

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He was also the Company-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, United States where he turned United States$100 million into United States$1 billion between 1996 and 2001.

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