Andy Kessler
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Andy Kessler (born 1959)[1] 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 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. Currently he lives in California with his wife and four sons.
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- The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor (New York Times Business Bestseller) (2006) ISBN 006113029X
- How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer (A History of Technology and Markets) (2004) ISBN 0-9727832-2-9
- Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score (New York Times Bestseller) (2004) ISBN 0060740655
- Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder (Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and Me) (2003) ISBN 0-06-059214-1
