Kris Gunnars is a full-time investor and internet entrepreneur. He is the former founder and CEO of Authority Nutrition, which he built into the world's biggest nutrition website before he sold it in 2017.
Kris is the owner of Stock Analysis, which he started in February 2019. He also owns and manages the investments for Skuggi Capital, a company registered in Iceland that specializes in the US stock market.
Kris's full Icelandic name is Kristjan Mar Gunnarsson. He is 33 years old and was born and raised in Iceland. He has a bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Iceland.
He started Authority Nutrition while he was a medical student and ended up dropping out of school when the website became successful. The site was getting 10-20 million visits per month and making over $2 million a year from display ads.
Authority Nutrition ended up becoming the world's biggest nutrition website based on Alexa Rank. In 2017, Kris sold the site to Healthline, which is currently the world's biggest health website.
Articles that Kris wrote personally have driven over 500 million visits, making him one of the most-read bloggers in history.
Kris has been quoted and linked to from many of the world's biggest media sites, including The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, The Guardian, Business Insider, and others.
After selling Authority Nutrition, Kris decided to become a full-time investor and then started Stock Analysis.
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You can contact him directly via email at kris@stockanalysis.com or send a message via the contact form.
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