<Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> Shorting the 2007 mortgage bond market by swapping collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) Founding and managing Scion Asset Management </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Net worth </Th> <Td> $300 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Michael J. Burry (/ ˈbɜːri /; born June 19, 1971) is an American physician, investor, and hedge fund manager . He was the founder of the hedge fund Scion Capital, which he ran from 2000 until 2008, and then closed to focus on his own personal investments . Burry was one of the first investors to recognize and profit from the impending subprime mortgage crisis . </P> <P> Burry was born in 1971 and attended Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California . He studied economics and pre-med at the University of California, Los Angeles, went on to earn an M.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and started but did not finish his residency in neurology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics . While off duty at night, he worked on his hobby, financial investing . On one occasion, Burry had been working so hard studying both for medical school and his personal financial interests that he fell asleep standing up during a complicated surgery and crashed into the oxygen tent that had been built around the patient . As a result, he was thrown out of the operating room by the lead surgeon . Despite not practicing, Dr. Burry has continuously has kept his license as a physician active with the Medical Board of California, including continuing education requirements . </P>

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