In 2002, in the slums of South Los Angeles, Jason White was still a high school student who got up at four in the morning to deliver newspapers. The four children in the family live in a two-bedroom apartment. The father drives a truck and the mother collects cash. No one believed that this poor boy wearing patched jeans could go to college, and no one thought that he would become the most feared short seller on Wall Street ten years later.
From the failure of campus entrepreneurship to making 42 million yuan by shorting subprime mortgages in 2008, from a mobile Internet security unicorn to a payment empire that subverted financial technology - Jason used code and capital to rewrite his destiny, and also attracted the joint encirclement and suppression of rich second-generation rivals, hackers and political brokers.
This is a story of a man rising from the dust, and a story of how dreams are made, consumed, betrayed and redefined.
