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Edwin Dorsey

Founder & Author, The Bear Cave

Search every verified Edwin Dorsey interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Edwin Dorsey, founder and author of The Bear Cave newsletter, has continued to build a following for his research on corporate misconduct and short selling. In recent podcast appearances, he discussed his focus on exposing companies he believes are misleading investors or harming customers, with a particular emphasis on U.S.-listed Chinese companies and stock promotion scams. He described joining WhatsApp groups to track pump-and-dump schemes and estimated that such scams transfer over $10 billion annually from U.S. investors. Dorsey also stated that he does not trade the stocks he writes about in The Bear Cave, saying he earns income from reader subscriptions, though he noted he has shorted some micro-cap companies for experience without writing about them. Dorsey has shared bearish views on several companies, including DraftKings, which he called "a fantastic short," arguing that prediction markets offer better odds and do not ban winning bettors. He has also discussed his research on Planet Fitness, which he described as potentially operating as an "illegal billing operation," and his past investigation into Care.com, where he said he was approved as a babysitter using a Harvey Weinstein persona. In interviews, he has emphasized the value of Freedom of Information Act requests and consumer complaints in his research process. He has also expressed interest in building software tools, such as a stock promotion tracker, to help individual investors research corporate misconduct.

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Notable quotes

“I think DraftKings is a fantastic short. ... prediction markets get better odds, better liquidity, and crucially, they don't ban winning betters. ... DraftKings needs to pay a ton to acquire users while Kalshi can just partner with Robinhood or whomever and distribute their prediction markets into every interface.”

“I don't bet against the companies I write about in the Bear Cave newsletter. I only make money from reader subscriptions. Now I do trade my money a little bit like in micro cap stocks and I have shorted some really like sub $100 million micro cap companies just, just to get a little bit of experience doing it. But I'm not writing about it. So there's a kind of bright line.”

“These companies typically perform horribly, typically are having your share price manipulated and historically have lied about their financials, although that's become less important. A lot of this manipulation occurs over WhatsApp.”

“What we've seen is NASDAQ almost has a financial disincentive to take these down because they earn money from the listing and they earn money from the volume. Regulators have been extremely ineffective at stopping this.”

“I estimate in aggregate that these scams are transferring $10 billion plus a year from ordinary US investors to overseas stock scammers.”

“I don't trade the stocks I write about. Even though if you look at the history, long term the stocks I've written about have underperformed the market by a fairly significant margin. I don't trade them. And that's kind of one of the controversial things in the activist short seller world is, you know, can you trade around reports? There's kind of some regulatory and legal scrutiny around that now.”

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