Nathan Anderson is the founder of Hindenburg Research, a New York-based investment management firm, and a forensic financial investigator that is famous for releasing reports on alleged wrongdoing by companies. When publishing some of these reports, his company profits by short selling the target company's stocks (that is, by making a bet in securities markets that the price of the company's shares will decline). If all goes according to plan, the report itself will cause the price of the stock to decline, leaving Hindenburg Research with a profit from its short position. Childhood and early career Anderson's exact birth date is not publicly known, but he was thought to be 38 years old in early 2023. Anderson grew up in the state of Connecticut. He is the son of a university professor and a nurse. During a business podcast, Anderson recalled that he had tried to convince a rabbi that the Book of Genesis was incompatible with the modern theory of evolution. He earned a degree in international business from the University of Connecticut. Between March 2004 and January 2005, he worked as an ambulance driver in Israel and attended classes at Hebrew University. He has qualified for two financial professional certifications: the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and the Certified Financial Analyst (CFA). He began his financial career working for FactSet Research Systems Inc. He later described his experiences to the Wall Street Journal by saying: "I realized they were doing a lot of run-of-the-mill analysis, there was a lot of conformity." He then took a job vetting potential investments for the private wealth management services of wealthy people. After this initial experience, he founded his first firm, ClaritySpring. Later career – forensic reports and short selling Anderson has stated that his decision to specialise in financial fraud investigations was inspired by Harry Markopolos, a financial fraud investigator who was instrumental in uncovering the Bernie Madoff's investment scandal. Anderson reportedly worked with Markopolos on the Platinum Partners investigation, which resulted in 7 executives being charged with securities fraud. Around 2014, Anderson began filing whistleblowing reports with U.S. authorities, hoping to collect government bounties for uncovering fraud (for an example of such a program, see the Security and Exchange Commission's Office of the Whistleblower). Anderson founded Hindenburg Research, a small investment management specialising in forensic finance investigations, in 2018. It seeks to unearth 'man-made disasters floating around in the market'.