"Mr. Kessler has written an entertaining business book, in which it is more than possible to learn something. That is a rare combination."

--New York Times

"Like a summer blockbuster film, you will enjoy the time if you go into the book knowing what you are getting into. This is not a how-to guide to running a hedge fund, it is a description of a rollicking ride through a crazy time lived well."

--Financial Times

Running Money is an insider’S tale. Through witty and whacky stories, Andy Kessler takes the reader on a tour of big-stakes investing, a bizarre trail of startup companies, anonymous investors and the occasional Elvis impersonator.

Spending almost twenty years on Wall Street as an analyst, investment banker and venture capitalist, he decided to start a hedge fund of his own. Discovering his own "tricks of the trade,"he generated vast wealth with an average annual return of 55% on his fund, which makes him a top-ranking professional investor.

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 Part I Raising Funds

 Part II Revolution

 Part III Searching for Scale

 Part IV Intellectual Property

 Part V The Next Barrier

 Part VI Burst

 Part VII The Margin Surplus

 Part VIII Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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