pessimist

They needed simply to entice Mike Burry, or some other market pessimist, to pick 100 different triple-B bonds and buy $10 million in credit default swaps on each of them.

That is a somewhat granular data point that pessimists will hang onto, as they fear “white box” competition, or the emergence of Big Tech’s own equipment taking share from Arista’s.

He describes himself as a “long-term optimist but a short-term pessimist.”

A pessimist, however, would look and see the need for careful risk management.

“My advice is simple: Plan like a pessimist and travel like an optimist,” he said.