Andy Kessler is an author of books on business and technology, 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. The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with a worldwide average daily circulation of more than 2. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City Forbes is a publishing and media company. ... The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative political magazine published 48 times per year. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... The American Spectator magazine. ...
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. Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs was originally the research and development arm of the United States Bell System, and was the premier corporate facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor. ... Paine Webber and Company was an American stock brokerage firm founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts by William Albert Paine and Wallace G. Webber. ... Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is an investment bank, retail broker, and credit card provider with headquarters in New York City. ...
Books and Writing
The End of Medicine (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
AndyKessler is a former hedge fund manager who now writes on investment trends in technology and communications.
Andy is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page and has written for Wired, Forbes Magazine, The Weekly Standard, LA Times, The American Spectator magazine and techcentralstation.com and thestreet.com websites.
AndyKessler was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provided funding for private and public technology and communications companies.
Ex-hedge fund guy AndyKessler, recently took time to talk to DealBreaker's Carolyn Okomo about his new book, The End of Medicine, a witty, engaging examination of the heathcare industry in the not-too-distant future.
Kessler is witty and sarcastic in the kind of way that makes you want to sit down for a pitcher of beer with him to shoot the breeze
AndyKessler, author of "The End of Medicine," suggests that an effective use of technology could drastically reduce health care costs.
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