Anthony Pompliano - known as 'Pomp' - is an Army veteran turned tech operator turned Bitcoin maximalist who built one of the most influential finance media empires on the internet. From three tours at Facebook to three weeks at Snapchat (and a whistleblower lawsuit to show for it), he has relentlessly bet on Bitcoin when no one on Wall Street would. Today he runs ProCap Financial (Nasdaq: BRR), a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company holding 5,457+ BTC, while publishing The Pomp Letter to 270,000+ subscribers and hosting a podcast with 50 million downloads.
Ben Carlson is a CFA charterholder, Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, and one of the most widely-read finance writers in the United States. Through his blog A Wealth of Common Sense, co-hosted podcast Animal Spirits, and six books, Carlson has built a reputation for translating Wall Street complexity into plain-English wisdom that ordinary investors can actually use - advocating for simplicity, patience, and behavioral discipline over market-timing and stock-picking.
Byrne Hobart is the founder and author of The Diff, a daily newsletter read by hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and tech founders tracking inflection points in finance and technology. A self-taught investor who landed at SAC Capital without a college degree purely on the strength of his writing, Hobart now co-runs Anomaly, a frontier tech investment firm, and co-authored Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation with Stripe Press. He writes roughly 500,000 words a year and counts 1.5% of the Forbes 400 among his readers.
Matt Levine is Bloomberg Opinion's most-read finance columnist and the voice behind Money Stuff, a daily newsletter that turns Wall Street's most bewildering moments into something approaching comedy. A Harvard classics grad turned Yale-trained lawyer turned Goldman Sachs banker turned Dealbreaker editor, Levine spent his career collecting lenses before finding the one that let him explain finance to everyone who ever wondered what a 'synthetic CDO' actually is - and why it matters. With over 300,000 subscribers, Money Stuff is the rare financial publication that people actually look forward to reading.
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.