Experts
Patrick Byrne
Founder & CEO, Overstock.com
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Patrick Byrne: What is your question?
Either help or get out of the way. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Patrick Byrne: Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
Byrne wants to know about the Mideast and development. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In World
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Patrick Byrne: If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it?
We must spend more money on the well-being on the young Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: What is your counsel?
We are sticking it to future generations. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Patrick Byrne: How will this age be remembered?
Government and discourse has been co-opted; media can get it back. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In History
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Patrick Byrne: What is your outlook?
Byrne is not as optimistic as Friedman. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Future
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Patrick Byrne: What should be the big issues of the 2008 presidential elections?
Education should be the election issue. Read More
January 4, 2008
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Patrick Byrne: What is the world's greatest challenge in the coming decade?
The environment and the Middle East are paramount. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In World
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Patrick Byrne: What are the greatest issues facing the United States today?
We will end up like South Korea unless we build our education system. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Patrick Byrne: What forces have shaped humanity most?
The course of history has followed the wills of the powerful. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In History
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Patrick Byrne: What is the measure of a good life?
Only the leaders make it in this world. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Patrick Byrne: What do you believe?
A shift from Catholicism to Asian philosophy. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Belief
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Patrick Byrne on Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne on Oracle of Omaha. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: What inspires you?
Full faith in education as progress in the US. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Patrick Byrne: How do you contribute?
The entire regulatory system is compromised. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: What is Naked Shorting?
Byrne explains the illegal practice of borrowing and selling phantom shares of publicly traded companies. He argues Americans; savings are undermined by naked shorting. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: Why did you found Overstock.com?
The origins of overstock.com. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: What do you do?
Byrne explains how he sees his role as entrepreneur. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Patrick Byrne: What have you learned from the martial arts?
Growing up with boxing. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Where Byrne calls home. Read More
January 4, 2008 | In Identity
Patrick M. Byrne is the CEO of the Internet retailer Overstock.com. Byrne received his B.A. from Dartmouth, studied at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, and earned a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University. He co-founded Overstock.com in 1997 and became CEO in 1999. In 2005, Byrne initiated a controversial campaign against "naked short selling" in which he accused a "Sith Lord" and various financial firms of sabotaging Overstock's share price. Byrne also serves as head of First Class Education, an education lobbying group that seeks to require that 65% of all educational spending be spent "in the classroom." A strong proponent of school vouchers, Byrne spent almost four million dollars in advertising for a bill that would have given Utah residents who enroll their children in private schools taxpayer-supported subsidies. The bill lost, 62-38%.
