The WBI founder has spent four decades turning a concern about investment losses into portfolios, books, and software. His biggest launch tells a quieter story about how an advisor builds something that lasts.

He put his brokerage account on camera in 2019. Seven years later, Joseph Carlson has turned the habit of showing his work into a show, a second channel and a stock research business.

Meb Faber is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management, overseeing roughly $20 billion in assets across a suite of quantitative ETFs and private funds. A prolific author of six investing books (all free to download), host of the top-rated Meb Faber Show podcast with 615+ episodes, and curator of The Idea Farm newsletter reaching 100,000+ subscribers, Faber has made a career out of democratizing evidence-based investing - blending rigorous quantitative research with a rare willingness to share it all for free.