About

Michael Fertik is a published fiction and non-fiction author, poet, and produced film writer whose work has won fiction and film prizes and festival selections. He is the author of the detective thriller Hip Set (2021) and Little Trouble in Tall Tree (2012), a 2012 eLit Awards Gold Winner. He is also the co-author of The Reputation Economy (2015), which reached #7 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

His novella Allotrope appeared in The Write Launch. His short fiction has been published in Eclectica, Litro, december magazine, Alt Hist, Minor Literatures, The New Guard, Duck Lake Journal, and other literary magazines. His short story "You Are Not Baba Yaga" won First Prize in the 2017 Stirling Publishing Short Story Contest. His films, including Femto-Management: A Micromentary and CI: A Tedd Talkumentary, satirize Silicon Valley and have been selected by the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the Napa Valley Film Festival.

He is the same Michael Fertik who founded Reputation.com, Heroic Ventures, and Verdict Capital. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Verdict Capital and the CEO and Founder of Modelcode.ai. Read about his business career at michaelfertik.com.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Just about all the men in his family for four generations have been artists of one kind or another. He's hoping his children will have artistic interests, too.

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