Daniel Rasmussen is an American Author, Journalist, and Investor based in Seattle. He is the Founder of Verdad Advisors, a private equity fund. Daniel was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2017 for the Finance category. ^[1]

Daniel was born and raised in Washington D.C. and attended St. Albans School. During high school, he was passionate about investigative journalism and became the first private school winner of the national Journalism Education Association’s Impact Award. He spent every summer working for his local weekly, The Current, covering local politics at the grassroots level. In 2005, the Maryland—Delaware—DC Press Foundation named Rasmussen high school journalist of the year. He also spent a summer working for Roll Call newspaper on Capitol Hill. In addition to journalism, Rasmussen was a national medalist in rowing and was named a Washington Post All—Met athlete.

Daniel enrolled in Harvard University where he studied History and Literature. An active student, he was a part of Phi Beta Kappa and lightweight rowing. His sophomore year he won the History and Literature sophomore essay prize for his essay on American expansion in Florida. His junior year, he began work on the 1811 German Coast Uprising–the largest slave revolt in American history. Over the next two years, Rasmussen performed research in New Orleans, Washington DC, and Massachusetts, digging up letters, traveler’s narratives, naval records, court records, planter statements of accounts, and newspaper articles.

Rasmussen’s thesis won the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize, the Perry Miller Prize and the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, Harvard’s top undergraduate academic honor.

The thesis is the basis for Rasmussen’s first book, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt.

Rasmussen would earn his A.B. from Harvard in 2009.

Daniel would earn his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Early in his career, Daniel was a Summer Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates and an Associate at Bain Capital. In April 2014, Daniel became a Partner at Verdad Advisors, a hedge fund he founded which aims to replicate private equity returns in the public markets by using research and quantitative methods to build a portfolio of leveraged companies. ^[1]