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Andy Kessler (born 1958)^[1] is an American businessman, investor, and author. He writes the "Inside View" column for The Wall Street Journal opinion page. Kessler has worked for about 20 years as a research analyst, investment banker, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.^[2] He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The American Spectator, and Thestreet.com.^[2]

Early life

Raised in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey,^[3] Kessler attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School East.^[4] He has a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1980) and an MSEE from the University of Illinois (1981).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Finance

From 1980 to 1985, Kessler worked for AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined Paine Webber in New York as an analyst of the electronics and semiconductor industry. In 1989, Kessler joined Morgan Stanley as a semiconductor analyst before moving to San Francisco in 1993. There he worked for Unterberg Harris as an investor, until starting Velocity Capital with Fred Kittler.

Writer

From January to March 2003, Kessler wrote and successfully self-published a book, Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder, about working with Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, and Mary Meeker, after hearing that traditional publishing houses would take over a year to publish it.^[5]

Kessler's 2010 novel Grumby takes him into the world of super-hackers. The book is notable among books by well-known authors for being released first on Kindle and then in hardcover. This allowed Kessler to include a fictional cause for the flash-crash, which occurred just prior to publication, in the plot.^{[citation needed]}

Among his many other writings, in an April 26, 2007 guest column in The New York Times, entitled "Trust Me", Kessler wrote in part: "There are plenty of things I don’t trust – like Wikipedia. I’ve watched my 15-year-old son and his friends take turns editing the page for the animated film 'Land Before Time,' flipping the gender of the character Littlefoot from he to she and back."^[6]

In March 2023, Kessler suggested in The Wall Street Journal that the Silicon Valley Bank "may have been distracted by diversity demands" in the lead up to its collapse.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Awards

2019 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for his "Inside View" columns in The Wall Street Journal.^[10]

Selected works

Eat People and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs (2011) ISBN 1-59184-377-4
Grumby: A Novel (2010) ISBN 0-9827163-2-X
The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor (The New York Times Business Best Seller) (2006) ISBN 0-06-113029-X
How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer (A History of Technology and Markets) (2004) ISBN 0-9727832-2-9
Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score (The New York Times Best Seller) (2004) ISBN 0-06-074065-5
Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder (Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and Me) (2003) ISBN 0-06-059214-1

Personal

Kessler lives in California with his wife, Nancy, and four children.

References

^ Andy Kessler
^ ^a ^b Kessler, Andy (2004). Wall Street meat : my narrow escape from the stock market grinder (1st HarperBusiness paperback ed.). New York: HarperBusiness. ISBN 0-06-059214-1.
^ Kessler, Andy. "A Boy and His Flag; The Stars and Stripes represents freedom—and the ways we adapt to earn our living.", The Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020. "I grew up in central New Jersey, in the township of Bridgewater, some 10 miles up the Raritan River from New Brunswick."
^ "'Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs' with Andy Kessler". Wharton Club of Northern California. June 9, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
^ Kessler, Andy. "Self-Publish And Be Damned? Not Always.", The Wall Street Journal Online, January 20, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2008.
^ Kessler, Andy. NYT: Trust Me, The New York Times, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
^ Barr, Kyle (March 13, 2023). "The Wall Street Journal Thinks Silicon Valley Bank Woked Itself Into Bankruptcy". Gizmodo.
^ Koebler, Jason (March 13, 2023). "WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?". Motherboard. Vice.
^ Kessler, Andy. "Opinion | Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank?". WSJ. Archived from the original on March 13, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023. Then there's this: In its proxy statement, SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their board being independent and 45 percent women, they also have '1 Black,' '1 LGBTQ+,' and '2 Veterans.' I'm not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands.
^ Trounson, Rebecca (June 28, 2019). "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2019 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved October 2, 2019.

External links

Scholia has a profile for Andy Kessler (Q4760895).

Official website
"Inside View" column at The Wall Street Journal
@AndyKessler on Twitter

[1] Andy Kessler

[meat-2] Kessler, Andy (2004). Wall Street meat : my narrow escape from the stock market grinder (1st HarperBusiness paperback ed.). New York: HarperBusiness. ISBN 0-06-059214-1.

[3] Kessler, Andy. "A Boy and His Flag; The Stars and Stripes represents freedom—and the ways we adapt to earn our living.", The Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020. "I grew up in central New Jersey, in the township of Bridgewater, some 10 miles up the Raritan River from New Brunswick."

[Eat-4] "'Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs' with Andy Kessler". Wharton Club of Northern California. June 9, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2016.

[WSJ-5] Kessler, Andy. "Self-Publish And Be Damned? Not Always.", The Wall Street Journal Online, January 20, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2008.

[6] Kessler, Andy. NYT: Trust Me, The New York Times, 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.

[7] Barr, Kyle (March 13, 2023). "The Wall Street Journal Thinks Silicon Valley Bank Woked Itself Into Bankruptcy". Gizmodo.

[8] Koebler, Jason (March 13, 2023). "WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?". Motherboard. Vice.

[SVB_WSJ-9] Kessler, Andy. "Opinion | Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank?". WSJ. Archived from the original on March 13, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023. Then there's this: In its proxy statement, SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their board being independent and 45 percent women, they also have '1 Black,' '1 LGBTQ+,' and '2 Veterans.' I'm not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands.

[LOEB-2019-10] Trounson, Rebecca (June 28, 2019). "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2019 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved October 2, 2019.

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-'''Andy Kessler''' (born 1958)<ref>[http://www.andykessler.com/about.html Andy Kessler<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> is an American businessman, investor, and author. He writes the "Inside View" column for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' opinion page.
+'''Andy Kessler''' (born 1958)<ref>[http://www.andykessler.com/about.html Andy Kessler<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> is an American businessman, investor, and author. He writes the "Inside View" column for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' opinion page. Kessler has worked for about 20 years as a research analyst, investment banker, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.<ref name=meat>{{cite book|last=Kessler|first=Andy|title=Wall Street meat : my narrow escape from the stock market grinder|year=2004|publisher=HarperBusiness|location=New York|isbn=0-06-059214-1|edition=1st HarperBusiness paperback|url=https://archive.org/details/wallstreetmeatmy00kess}}</ref>  He has written for ''The Wall Street Journal'',  ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Forbes]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The American Spectator]]'', and [[Thestreet.com]].<ref name=meat/>
+==Early life==
-Kessler has worked for about 20 years as a research analyst, investment banker, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.<ref name=meat>{{cite book|last=Kessler|first=Andy|title=Wall Street meat : my narrow escape from the stock market grinder|year=2004|publisher=HarperBusiness|location=New York|isbn=0-06-059214-1|edition=1st HarperBusiness paperback|url=https://archive.org/details/wallstreetmeatmy00kess}}</ref>  He was also the Co-founder and President of [[Velocity Capital Management]], an investment firm based in [[Palo Alto]], [[California]], [[United States]]<ref name=Eat>{{cite web|title='Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs' with Andy Kessler|url=http://www.whartonclub.com/article.html?aid=1411|work=Wharton Club of Northern California|publisher=Wharton Club of Northern California|date=June 9, 2011 |access-date=August 25, 2016}}</ref> where he turned [[United States dollar|US$]]100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
+Raised in [[Bridgewater Township, New Jersey]],<ref>Kessler, Andy. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-boy-and-his-flag-11592153447 "A Boy and His Flag; The Stars and Stripes represents freedom—and the ways we adapt to earn our living."], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', June 14, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020. "I grew up in central New Jersey, in the township of Bridgewater, some 10 miles up the Raritan River from New Brunswick."</ref> Kessler attended [[Bridgewater-Raritan High School East]].<ref name=Eat>{{cite web|title='Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs' with Andy Kessler|url=http://www.whartonclub.com/article.html?aid=1411|work=Wharton Club of Northern California|date=June 9, 2011 |access-date=August 25, 2016}}</ref> He has a BS in electrical engineering from [[Cornell University]] (1980) and an MSEE from the [[University of Illinois]] (1981).{{cn|date=April 2024}}
-He has written for ''The Wall Street Journal'',  ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', ''[[Forbes]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The American Spectator]]'', and [[Thestreet.com]].<ref name=meat/>
+==Career==
-Raised in [[Bridgewater Township, New Jersey]],<ref>Kessler, Andy. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-boy-and-his-flag-11592153447 "A Boy and His Flag; The Stars and Stripes represents freedom—and the ways we adapt to earn our living."], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', June 14, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020. "I grew up in central New Jersey, in the township of Bridgewater, some 10 miles up the Raritan River from New Brunswick."</ref> Kessler attended [[Bridgewater-Raritan High School East]].<ref name=Eat/> He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from [[Cornell University]] (1980) and an MSEE from the [[University of Illinois]] (1981).
+===Finance===
-From 1980 to 1985, Kessler worked for [[AT&T Bell Labs]] as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined [[Paine Webber]] in New York as an [[industry analyst|analyst]] of the [[electronics]] and [[semiconductor]] industry.  In 1989, Kessler joined [[Morgan Stanley]] as a semiconductor analyst before moving to [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] in 1993. There he worked for [[Unterberg Harris]] as an investor, until starting Velocity Capital with Fred Kittler. Currently he lives in [[California]] with his wife, Nancy, and four sons, Kyle, Kurt, Ryan, and Brett.
+From 1980 to 1985, Kessler worked for [[AT&T Bell Labs]] as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined [[Paine Webber]] in New York as an [[industry analyst|analyst]] of the [[electronics]] and [[semiconductor]] industry.  In 1989, Kessler joined [[Morgan Stanley]] as a semiconductor analyst before moving to [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] in 1993. There he worked for [[Unterberg Harris]] as an investor, until starting Velocity Capital with Fred Kittler.
-==Writer==
+===Writer===
 From January to March 2003, Kessler wrote and successfully [[self-publish]]ed a book, ''Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder'', about working with [[Jack Grubman]], [[Frank Quattrone]], and [[Mary Meeker]], after hearing that traditional publishing houses would take over a year to publish it.<ref name=WSJ>Kessler, Andy. [http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004578 "Self-Publish And Be Damned? Not Always."], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]] Online'', January 20, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2008.</ref>
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 Among his many other writings, in an April 26, 2007 guest column in ''[[The New York Times]]'', entitled "Trust Me", Kessler wrote in part: "There are plenty of things I don’t trust – like Wikipedia. I’ve watched my 15-year-old son and his friends take turns editing the page for the animated film '[[The Land Before Time (film)|Land Before Time]],' flipping the gender of the character [[Littlefoot]] from he to she and back."<ref>Kessler, Andy. [http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2007/04/nyt_trust_me.html NYT: Trust Me], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.</ref>
+In March 2023, Kessler suggested in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' that the [[Silicon Valley Bank]] "may have been distracted by diversity demands" in the lead up to its collapse.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://gizmodo.com/wall-street-journal-silicon-valley-bank-fdic-startup-1850221018|title=The Wall Street Journal Thinks Silicon Valley Bank Woked Itself Into Bankruptcy|first=Kyle|last=Barr|work=Gizmodo|date=2023-03-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwq9a/wsj-wonders-did-silicon-valley-bank-die-because-one-black-person-was-on-its-board|title=
+WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?|first=Jason|last=Koebler|work=Motherboard|publisher=Vice|date=2023-03-13}}</ref><ref name="SVB_WSJ">{{cite news |last1=Kessler |first1=Andy |title=Opinion {{!}} Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-killed-silicon-valley-bank-interest-rates-treasury-federal-reserve-ipo-loan-long-term-bond-capital-securities-startup-jpmorgan-bear-stearns-lehman-brothers-b9ca2347 |access-date=14 March 2023 |work=WSJ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230313232422/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/who-killed-silicon-valley-bank-interest-rates-treasury-federal-reserve-ipo-loan-long-term-bond-capital-securities-startup-jpmorgan-bear-stearns-lehman-brothers-b9ca2347 |archive-date=13 March 2023 |quote=Then there's this: In its proxy statement, SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their board being independent and 45 percent women, they also have '1 Black,' '1 LGBTQ+,' and '2 Veterans.' I’m not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands.}}</ref>
 ==Awards==
 * 2019 [[Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials|Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary]] for his "Inside View" columns in The Wall Street Journal.<ref name=LOEB-2019>{{Cite press release |title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2019 Gerald Loeb Award Winners |date=June 28, 2019 |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2019-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300877656.html |last1=Trounson |first1=Rebecca |access-date=October 2, 2019 |website=[[PR Newswire]]}}</ref>
-==Bibliography==
+==Selected works==
 *''Eat People and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs'' (2011) {{ISBN|1-59184-377-4}}
 *''Grumby: A Novel'' (2010) {{ISBN|0-9827163-2-X}}
-*''The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor]]'' ([[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Business Best Seller]]) (2006) {{ISBN|0-06-113029-X}}
+*''The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor'' ([[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Business Best Seller]]) (2006) {{ISBN|0-06-113029-X}}
-*''How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer (A History of Technology and Markets)]]'' (2004) {{ISBN|0-9727832-2-9}}
+*''How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer (A History of Technology and Markets)'' (2004) {{ISBN|0-9727832-2-9}}
-*''Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score]]'' ([[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller]]) (2004) {{ISBN|0-06-074065-5}}
+*''Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score'' ([[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller]]) (2004) {{ISBN|0-06-074065-5}}
-*''Wall Street Meat|Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder]] ([[Jack Grubman]], [[Frank Quattrone]], [[Mary Meeker]], [[Henry Blodget]] and Me)'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-06-059214-1}}
+*''Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder ([[Jack Grubman]], [[Frank Quattrone]], [[Mary Meeker]], [[Henry Blodget]] and Me)'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-06-059214-1}}
+==Personal==
+Kessler lives in [[California]] with his wife, Nancy, and four children.
 ==References==
-{{reflist}}
+{{reflist|2}}
 ==External links==
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+{{scholia}}
 *{{Official website|http://www.andykessler.com}}
 *[https://www.wsj.com/news/types/inside-view "Inside View"] column at ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
 *[https://twitter.com/andykessler @AndyKessler on Twitter]
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