Whitney Tilson

Whitney is the Editor of Stansberry’s Investment Advisory, Stansberry Research’s flagship newsletter, The N.E.W. System, and Whitney Tilson’s Daily. He is also Editor of Commodity Supercycles and a member of the Stansberry Portfolio Solutions Investment Committee. 

Whitney spent nearly 20 years on Wall Street. During that time, he founded and ran Kase Capital Management, which managed three value-oriented hedge funds and two mutual funds. Starting out of his bedroom with $1 million, Whitney grew assets under management to a peak of $200 million. 

Once dubbed “The Prophet” by CNBC, Whitney predicted the dot-com crash, the housing bust, the 2009 stock bottom, and more. An accomplished writer, Whitney has published four books, the most recent of which is The Art of Playing Defense: How to Get Ahead by Not Falling Behind (2021). And he contributed to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway’s 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. 

Whitney graduated with honors from Harvard University, earning a bachelor’s degree in government. Upon graduation, he helped Wendy Kopp launch the Teach for America program. He went on to earn his Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard in 1994. Whitney graduated in the top 5% of his class and was named a Baker Scholar.