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Michael J. Burry
Founder of Scion Capital
Value Investing Short Seller Portrayed in The Big Short
Predicted 2008 Crisis
6,000%+
Crisis Returns
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Michael J. Burry
Founder, Scion Capital & Scion Asset Management — The Man Who Saw It Coming
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Physician turned investor. Predicted the 2008 subprime collapse. Warned of the AI bubble with Nvidia and Palantir shorts. Get the same deep-value analysis that made him legendary — delivered to your inbox every Sunday.

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"I believed the subprime mortgage bonds would be worth less than the CDS on them. So I bought the CDS."
- Michael Burry, Scion Capital
The Burry Story

From Physician to Legendary Investor

Born in 1971 in San Jose, California, Michael Burry studied economics at UCLA before earning his MD from Vanderbilt. After leaving neurology residency at Stanford, he founded Scion Capital — named after his favorite novel, The Scions of Shannara. Armed with Benjamin Graham's Security Analysis and an obsessive attention to detail, he built one of the most extraordinary track records in modern finance.

In 2005, when everyone was celebrating the housing boom, Burry analyzed thousands of individual mortgages and saw what no one else did: the subprime bonds were built on sand. He persuaded Goldman Sachs to sell him credit default swaps against them — and made $100 million personally and $700+ million for his investors when the crash came. His story was portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 film The Big Short.

2000

Founded Scion Capital

Started with personal savings and a family loan

2005

Shorted Subprime

Bought CDS against mortgage bonds

2021

GameStop Early Buyer

Invested before the meme stock saga

2025

AI Bubble Warning

Shorted Nvidia & Palantir via put options

2025

Cassandra Unchained

Launched Substack newsletter after closing Scion Asset Management

A Track Record That Speaks for Itself

Numbers don't lie. Here's what deep-value, contrarian investing has delivered over the years.

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