Cody Willard Profile…

The LA Times’ Dawn C. Chmielewski profiles FBN’s Cody Willard…

Leaping from lattes to finance: Despite his unconventional looks, Willard has some serious financial cred, doing stints at investment bank Oppenheimer & Co., at a technology venture capital fund and at a telecommunications company before starting a hedge fund, CL Willard Capital, which he ran for nearly five years. That job was so stressful, he wrote in London’s Financial Times, that he didn’t need an alarm clock. “The knot in my gut that came with the pressure of running other people’s money swelled long before the sun rose each morning.”

Somewhere between the technology boom of the late 1990s and the bust of 2000, Willard also started dabbling in financial journalism, writing columns for TheStreet.com and the Financial Times. He says he can still remember calling his mom to tell her about his writing gig with TheStreet, describing it as his big break.

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