Whitney Tilson

Whitney is the lead analyst for Stansberry Investment Advisory, our flagship newsletter.

Whitney graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in government. Upon graduation, he helped Wendy Kopp launch Teach for America. He then went on to earn his MBA at Harvard in 1994. He graduated in the top 5% of his class and was named a Baker Scholar.

In his professional life, Whitney founded and ran Kase Capital Management, which managed three value-oriented hedge funds and two mutual funds. Starting out of his bedroom with only $1 million, Tilson grew assets under management to more than $200 million.

An accomplished writer, Tilson has published four books, the most recent of which is The Art of Playing Defense: How to Get Ahead by Not Falling Behind (2021). He has also co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009). And he contributed to Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger.

Whitney has appeared dozens of times on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business Network, and has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He has also written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool, and TheStreet.com.