Get the entire 10-part series on Ray Dalio in PDF. Save it to your desktop, read it on your tablet, or email to your colleagues Soros is the legendary hedge fund manager who infamously made a billion dollars in a single day back in 92’ by shorting the pound and “breaking the bank of England”. For Amazon, the act of investors valuing it highly, actually helped improve its underlying fundamentals. Both Amazon and The Rock took advantage of people’s premature positive believes to objectively become more valuable.