Carson Block

Founder, CEO & CIO of Muddy Waters Capital LLC

Carson Block is a short-seller, investor and the founder of Muddy Waters Research, a pioneer in on-the-ground, freely published investment research. Block is known for documenting and alleging fraudulent accounting practices in Chinese, European, Canadian, and U.S. companies.

Who is…

  • Block catapulted to fame almost a decade ago for exposing alleged frauds in publicly traded Chinese companies, like the well-known case of Sino-Forest Corp.
  • In 2017, Block initiated a private lawsuit against Equifax, accusing it of neglecting to safeguard his personally identifiable information.
  • He appears in the documentary The China Hustle, outlining his research into Securities fraud of Chinese companies through Muddy Waters.
  • In 2011, Block was ranked as one of the “50 Most Influential” people on Bloomberg Markets’ list of thinkers.

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Michael Saylor

Michael Saylor co-founded MicroStrategy, which provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Credited as the inventor of relational analytics, he also led MicroStrategy into the fields of web analytics, distributed analytics, mobile analytics, cloud computing, mobile identity, and IoT.



Mike Novogratz

Michael Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Galaxy Digital. He was formerly a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998.



Bethany McLean

Bethany McLean is a columnist for Slate and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She also spent thirteen years at Fortune, where she was an editor-at-large. In 2001, she was one of the first reporters to raise questions about Enron.



Stanley Druckenmiller

Stanley Druckenmiller is the founder and former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he ran from 1981-2010. He is a top-down investor whose trading style is holding a group of stocks long, a group short, and using leverage to trade futures and currency.

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