Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilson is a famed investor and Wall Street legend and a former hedge fund manager, writer, and sports enthusiast. He serves as an Editor and Lead Analyst for Stansberry Investment Advisory, Stanberry Research’s flagship advisory. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of Empire Financial Research and Kase Capital Management. Tilson is the co-author of The Art of Value Investing and More Mortgage Meltdown. He is also a contributing author to "Poor Charlie's Almanack," the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger. He has spoken widely on value investing and behavioral finance. He is also a highly-reputable philanthropist involved with a number of charities focused on education reform and Africa.
Whitney Tilson Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Editor and Lead Analyst
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Founder and CEO
Academic History
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MBA with High Distinction
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Bachelor's Degree in Government, Magna Cum Laude
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Editor, Whitney Tilson's Daily
Editor, Stanberry's Investment Advisory
Board Member, Pershing Square Foundation
Member and Past Chairman, Young Presidents Organization Manhattan
RECOGNITIONS
2008 John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award
2007 Institutional Investor's 20 Rising Stars
2006 SmartMoney's Power 30
TRACK RECORD
Tilson is a well-known educator and practitioner of value investing.
He foresaw the housing bubble burst, the collapse of dot.com, and the 2009 stock market bottom.
He predicted the precise hour when marijuana stock prices peaked as well as the day that bitcoin peaked in 2017.
He purchased Netflix at a price of $7.78 per share. Since then, it has increased by 6,300%. Apple at $1.42 a share (up more than 35,000%), and Amazon at $48 a share (up more than 6,400%).
He saw the emergence of a big investing megatrend in the markets early in 2020.
EARLY CAREER
He founded and ran Kase Capital Management, expanding the company's assets under his management from $1 million at launch to a peak of $200 million.
At Kase Learning, he taught a range of investing seminars around the world and hosted two conferences dedicated solely to short selling.
Tilson is also the co-founder, Chairman and co-Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight, an investment newsletter, and is the co-founder and Chairman of the Value Investor Congress, a biannual investment conference in New York City and Los Angeles.
He spent five years working with HBS Professor Michael Porter studying the competitiveness of inner cities and inner-city-based companies nationwide.
Before business school, he spent two years as a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Tilson was featured in two 60 Minutes segments in December 2008 about the housing crisis and in March 2015 about Lumber Liquidators
He has written for Forbes, Kiplinger's, The Motley Fool, Financial Times, and TheStreet.
He has been featured or quoted on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Business Insider, and Institutional Investor.
He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.