Ron Pollack and President Ford

Ron Pollack — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:23:00 -0400

When Ron was putting together his Vail fundraiser for the rescue
workers of 9-11, he got a number of the local leaders and long-term
residents to help: Vail mayor Rod Slifer and his business partner Harry
Frampton (slifersmithframpton.com; eastwestpartners.com); skiing legend
Pepi Gramshammer (www.pepis.com);
Vail co-founder Dick Hauserman, etc. He even approached President
Gerald R. Ford. Unfortunately, President Ford couldn’t attend, but Ron
was invited up to his house in Beaver Creek to visit. (The secret

Ron Pollack: Recollections of a short seller

Ron Pollack — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:16:00 -0400

We sat down with Ron Pollack, short-seller and hedge fund manager of
the former Dancing Bear (net short) Fund, and asked him about some of
his experiences as a short seller. Ron recounted a story of a company
that he said was an example of a “technology hype story”. Years ago
there was a laser company that supposedly had developed a better
ophthalmic laser for correcting various vision disorders. This type of
product had been the subject of a lot of controversy at the time due to
the relatively low sales volume of the industry leader. One question