# Gregory Blotnick > Hedge Fund Professional ## Posts - [Gregory Blotnick, Former Portfolio Manager Announces Valiant Research LLC](https://gregoryblotnick.com/valiant-research/): Gregory J. Blotnick, a former portfolio manager with stints at Citadel LLC and Brattle Street Capital, has launched market intelligence and analytics firm Valiant Research LLC. Why Gregory Blotnick Launched Valiant Research: Leveling the Playing Field for Retail Investors [Source: Hedgeweek, California Business Journal]Over the past five years, the investing landscape has undergone a profound shift. Everyday individuals, like students and small business owners, have entered the stock market in unprecedented numbers. With smartphones and brokerage apps at their fingertips, investing has become more accessible than ever before. Gregory J. Blotnick, a veteran hedge fund portfolio manager, views this democratization […] - [Highlights from Pascal’s Pensées](https://gregoryblotnick.com/pascal-pensees/): “Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other… Man is then only disguise, falsehood, and hypocrisy…” - [Les Philosophes](https://gregoryblotnick.com/les-philosophes/): Les Philosophes May 21, 2025 by Gregory Blotnick “Happiness is only a dream, and pain is real… I have experienced this for eighty years. I know of nothing better than to resign myself to this and to say that flies are born to be eaten by spiders, and men to be devoured by trouble and affliction.” — Voltaire Everyone has their own favorite period of history. For whatever reason, over the last five years, I have developed a moderate-to-severe obsession with the French Enlightenment. I cannot find another era that created as many brilliant thinkers as the early 18th century: Voltaire, Diderot, […] - [Excerpt from "Our Oriental Heritage" - Confucius on our Times](https://gregoryblotnick.com/confucius/): The following excerpt is from The Great Learning by Confucius: “The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, […] - [Blind Spots: A Riches to Rags Story Featured in the Media](https://gregoryblotnick.com/blind-spots-press-release/): Blind Spots: A Raw and Riveting Look Into the High-Stakes World of Wall Street West Palm Beach, FL – Gregory Blotnick, a former hedge fund manager turned author, is receiving outsized media attention for his gripping new memoir, Blind Spots: A Riches to Rags Story.  Reviews of the book are now featured on several news wires as readers discover a unique memoir, one which offers an unfiltered account of one man’s meteoric rise in the hedge fund world along with the devastating collapse that followed. In a financial world that prizes winners and quietly forgets the fallen, Blotnick’s story cuts […] - [Will Durant Review - The Story of Civilization](https://gregoryblotnick.com/durant/): The Story of Civilization by Will Durant: A Complete Journey Through Human History A comprehensive review of all 11 volumes and the profound historical lessons they contain, written by an Amazon reviewer Napoleon and the Power of Historical Timing After completing my review of Durant’s opening volume, “Our Oriental Heritage,” I embarked on the complete journey through his monumental “Story of Civilization.” The final volume left me contemplating something profound: the decisive role of fortune in shaping history. The French Revolution unfolded like a natural phenomenon—countless individual actions combining into an unstoppable force of change. Napoleon emerged at precisely the […] - [Reading List (2022-2025)](https://gregoryblotnick.com/list/): Reading List (2022-2025) Full list, followed by Top 20 lists for both Non-Fiction and Fiction. Full List (A-Z) Top 20: Non-Fiction Top 20: Fiction Return to Posts ## Pages - [Resources](https://gregoryblotnick.com/resources/): Browse Resources Gregory Blotnick in Globe & Mail European Financial Review Educause About.Me Crunchbase Cal Biz Journal Hedgeweek VC Post Program Insider Apple Crain’s New York South Florida Reporter Authory Speakerhub Vocal Media - [Blind Spots](https://gregoryblotnick.com/blindspots/): Blind Spots A Riches to Rags Story About Blind Spots Summary One day you’re on top of the world, the next you’re chained in a jail cell on Rikers Island. It turns out that actions have consequences. Gregory Blotnick lived a life of excess, spending money as fast as he could make it. At age thirty, he had everything a man could ever want. It still wasn’t enough. Driven by unchecked ambition and vainglory, he risked it all on himself with no plan B. . . only to discover what happens when burning the boats goes horribly wrong. Each time […] - [About - Gregory Blotnick](https://gregoryblotnick.com/about/): About Biography & Background About Gregory Blotnick Gregory Blotnick is an investor and author who lives in Palm Beach County. Early Life & Education Gregory Blotnick was born in New York City in 1986 and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in 2005. He is the son of Srully Blotnick, a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School where he’d earned his PhD in cell biology in 1994. Gregory later earned a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University in 2009, became a CFA Charterholder in 2012 and completed his MBA at Columbia Business School […] - [Gregory Blotnick | Investor & Author | West Palm Beach, FL](https://gregoryblotnick.com/): Investor & Author | West Palm Beach, FL Gregory Blotnick About Gregory Blotnick Gregory Blotnick is an investor, entrepreneur, and author based in West Palm Beach, Florida.   Blotnick was most recently the founder and portfolio manager of Brattle Street Capital LLC, a long/short equity hedge fund in New York City focused on small and mid-cap opportunities within the Consumer & Retail industry. Previously, Blotnick worked at the hedge funds Citadel LLC, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, and several other long/short equity funds in the New York area. Since 2009, Blotnick has continued to develop broad expertise across the Consumer sector, analyzing hardlines, […] - [Posts](https://gregoryblotnick.com/posts/) - [Contact Gregory Blotnick](https://gregoryblotnick.com/contact/): Contact Gregory Blotnick Get In Touch With Gregory Blotnick [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)