CEO Describes What It’s Like When Investors Bet Against You

David Kestenbaum | NPR

April 9th, 2015

The online furniture company Wayfair is now one of the most shorted stocks. Our Planet Money team talks to its CEO about what it’s like to be running a company when some investors are betting on your fall.

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