I found his story rather inspiring. He was the guy that was highlighted in The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Anyways, prior to shorting derivatives, he was a value investor. (reminds me of someone , oh wait, me.) But it was kind of encouraging to hear from someone similar in many regards. The only problem I would have with investing other peoples money is that most people don't like to be contrarian. I found out the whole story on Risk Takers on Bloomberg. But I don't have a link for it, so here is the Wikipedia article:Michael Burry.