ABOUT CORY

Cory Johnson is Epistrophy Capital Research's Chief Market Strategist and the host of the Drill Down podcast. His peripatetic career has seen him in prominent roles as a hedge fund portfolio manager and investor, technology journalist and broadcaster.

Fundamentally he's an entrepreneur — helping to start media companies such as TheStreet.com, the Industry Standard, Vibe and Slam (inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024). He was CNBC's first Silicon Valley correspondent and later helped create the TV show Bloomberg West for Bloomberg TV and the radio show and podcast Bloomberg Advantage.

He was a senior executive at the blockchain startup Ripple, a portfolio manager for Kingsford Capital, an analyst at Cannell Capital LLC and a principal at the Forensic Research Group. Johnson has worked with a number of Silicon Valley startups, including Braintrust, C3.ai and Hypr and serves as a lay minister and a delegate to the Episcopal Diocese of California.