Michael Burry is known for betting against the US real estate market during the global financial crisis to net hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. His contrarian bets and strategic foresight have created an investor community that remains in awe of his contrarian bets through the decades. He bought GameStop before it was a meme stock and even invested in water, predicting future scarcity.
Even eBay rejected GameStop's $55 billion takeover offer after Burry criticised the move, stating he sold all his GameStop shares because they simply can't take over eBay or compete with giants like Amazon.