India, Dec. 4 -- Most of us may not know Michael Burry. Among the savvy stock investors, both in India and abroad, he is a known Cassandra. Like the princess from Greek mythology, whose prophecies were true but she was never believed, Burry's accurate warnings about the 2008 Financial Crisis, and Great Recession, were ignored. He made money from it through the Big Short,' and became famous. In his new Substack newsletter, Cassandra Unchained, he hopes to take on the tech giants, and the mystique of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In a recent blog, Burry guns for the tech giants, which use stocks and shares to compensate founders, CEOs, and senior executives. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, whose trillion-dollar compensation got 75 per cent votes f...