Copeland has followed Bridgewater since arriving at the WSJ in 2013. He has interviewed dozens of current and former Bridgewater employees, including Dalio, and many of his erstwhile heirs apparent. In 2020, Copeland wrote one of the most viewed stories in recent WSJ memory, a front-page story about the private Manhattan Project to develop a vaccine for Covid-19.
The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read - and the most fun, too -- Bradley Hope, bestselling author of <i>Billion Dollar Whale</i> At last, the era of the billionaire philosopher-king has a defining book. The Fund is a taut, nonfiction thriller -- Bryan Burrough, bestselling author of <i>Barbarians at the Gate</i> A classic American story about the most famous man on Wall Street - or the person he seems to be. The Fund manages to both shock and entertain at the same time -- Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of <i>American Rust and The Son</i> Jaw-dropping . . . well-told, well-structured and exquisitely reported -- <i>Financial Times</i> book review A terrific dagger of a book, packed with cringey detail, just long enough to efficiently disembowel its subject. For anyone who has had an awful boss, The Fund is the perfect rage-read -- Mark Gimein, reviewing for the <i>New York Times</i>