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James Altucher

James Altucher is the managing director of Formula Capital, an asset management firm and fund of hedge funds. He's written four books on investing: "Trade Like a Hedge Fund", "Trade Like Warren Buffett", "SuperCash", and "The Forever Portfolio" and is currently at work on a fifth, tentatively titled, "25 Ways the World Could Be Destroyed And How to Profit from it".

Mr. Altucher is the founder of Stockpickr.com, a social network for finance that had millions of unique visitors per month when it was sold to TheStreet.com in 2007. He has written over 200 columns for The Financial Times and has written for Thestreet.com, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Fidelity.com, and other publications. He was also the founder of a web services firm, Reset Inc, which he sold in 1998, at which time he became a partner at VC firm, 212 Ventures/Investcorp.

Mr. Altucher regularly appears on CNBC, Fox News,Fox Business, and CNN Radio, and is also in his spare time a nationally ranked chess master. Mr. Altucher received his BA at Cornell University and attended graduate school for computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.