Kirsten Grind

She is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco, the co-author of the book Happy At Any Cost, The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (Simon & Schuster, March 2022), and The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (Simon & Schuster, June 2012).

She has written an in-depth profile of Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey, detailed a stalking scandal at eBay, and most recently has chronicled the mishandling of sexual harassment allegations at the video game giant Activision Blizzard.

Earlier in her career at the WSJ, she was an enterprise finance reporter based in New York, where she exposed the flawed rating system of popular mutual funds, chronicled the downfall of the bond king, Bill Gross, uncovered a sexual harassment scandal at the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments and exposed a fast-growing, predatory green-energy loan program that took advantage of the elderly.

Grind's second book, Happy at Any Cost, The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, co-written with Katherine Sayre, was published March 15, 2022 by Simon and Schuster.

Grind and her colleague Gregory Zuckerman won the Gerald Loeb Award in 2015 in the category of Breaking News[1] for their series on PIMCO and the downfall of the "bond king" Bill Gross.