Edwin Dorsey

INVESTING JOURNEY

• Dorsey got hooked on investing in elementary school when his grandmother put some money for him into an E-Trade account. 

• He started pursuing big-name investors for meetings when he was still in high school.

• He began writing for the stock-research platform Seeking Alpha as a teenager.
• He wrote Warren Buffett so many letters asking to set up a sit-down that buffett’s assistant felt it necessary to caution him not to fly to Omaha.

• He met two prominent short-sellers early on, Jim Cohodes and Jim Carruthers, and that got him interested in shorting.

• His first foray into activist investing came when he was a Stanford student and wrote about Care.com, where he found indications that the company was letting through babysitters linked to children’s deaths or abuse.

RED FLAGS

His first three targets:

1. energy-drink company Celsius Holdings, which is up about 50.1 percent since Dorsey’s report;
2. online insurance marketplace EverQuote, which is down about 0.9 percent; and
3. online-school operator K12, which is down 11.6 percent.

HIS WORDS
“I honestly think if you asked me in third grade what I wanted to be, I would have said investor.”
“I’ve always been a big believer that you’ve got to get your face in front of people.”
“Almost everybody has something to teach you. Even if someone isn’t a wildly successful person in their industry, they’ll know something you don’t.” 
“With short-selling, you can actually change something. It’s part investing and part being a social activist.”
"Long investing is just trading pieces of paper back and forth but with short-selling, it’s different. If you expose misconduct, the company can change.”

He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.