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▶ 29:15 · $TSLA · Chanos reveals Tesla short position trimmed as stock surged 12x in 2020
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Generating Alpha Podcast

Episode 29: Jim Chanos - Founder of Kynikos Associates

2025-07-31 · 2 company · 3 thematic
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jim chanos

Legendary short seller and fraud detector who famously uncovered Enron, Baldwin United, Wirecard, and other major frauds. Teaches a course on the history of financial market fraud and has developed five systematic models for identifying fraud.

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“whenever we were short 3 4%. And we have to keep trimming it sadly. But same thing when we were famously short America Online in the late 90s. It did the same thing Tesla did. It went up 12x.”
—jim chanos
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