Author

Books by Mark Spitznagel

Mark Spitznagel is the founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, a tail-risk hedge fund he co-founded with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He trained as a pit trader on the Chicago Board of Trade before founding Universa, which became widely known after its massive gains during the 2008 and 2020 market crashes. Spitznagel holds degrees from Kalamazoo College and New York University and studied Austrian economics under Murray Rothbard. The Dao of Capital, published in 2013, is his first book.