Burry was born and grew up in San Jose, California. He has Rusyn ancestry. At the age of two he lost his left eye to retinoblastoma and has had a prosthetic eye ever since. As a teenager, he attended Santa Tere… See more

After medical school, Burry worked as a Stanford Hospital neurology resident, then a Stanford Hospital pathology resident.
He then left to start his own hedge fund. He had already developed a reputation as an investor by … See more