American real estate investor and private equity magnate who built a fortune by buying distressed real estate when no one else would — earning the nickname 'Grave Dancer' — and whose career spanned several real estate cycles where he bought at distressed prices and sold near peaks.
Demonstrated contrarian investing at a large scale — deliberately investing in assets that were deeply unloved and structurally distressed, doing the analytical work to understand why the distress was temporary, and having the conviction to hold large positions — making his Am I Being Too Subtle memoir a canonical account of contrarian capital allocation.
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