Transparency is everything in this industry. I post every trade, every day. If I'm having a bad month, you'll know it. That accountability changes how I trade.
Every trade I take, I post publicly. My good days, my bad days. Transparency is the only thing that separates educators who actually trade from those who just talk.
I lost money in crypto in 2022. I showed it on camera. The people who pretend they didn't lose anything are the ones you should trust least.
The 2022 crash hurt my portfolio. I showed it. I did not delete the videos. That transparency is what my audience deserves.
I lost millions on leveraged ETFs in 2022. I put it on YouTube. That is the deal I made with my audience — full transparency, including the bad stuff.
Transparency is the ultimate competitive advantage. If you share your mistakes, people trust your wins.
I show my portfolio and my mistakes publicly. Transparency is the price of credibility.
If a finance educator won't show you their own portfolio performance, ask yourself why.
We don't lobby for unclear rules. We lobby for clear rules. We'll follow any rules — we just need to know what they are.
We didn't restrict trading because we wanted to. We restricted trading because our clearinghouse demanded three billion dollars in collateral that we didn't have.
We will never charge a late fee. If you can't pay, the last thing you need is a punishment for being broke.
The magic of Affirm is that you know exactly what you're going to pay before you click buy. No surprises. No fine print.
Banks hide their fees inside the exchange rate. We show you the real rate and charge you a small honest fee. It's not complicated. They just don't want you to know.
I built Expedia to make travel prices transparent. Then Zillow for home prices. Glassdoor does the same for salaries. My whole career is ruining information asymmetry.
Before Glassdoor, the only way to know if a company was toxic was to work there for six months. Now you know before you submit your resume.
We've had over 100 million reviews submitted. That's 100 million employees telling the truth about their workplace. HR departments can't spin their way out of that.
Knowing what your colleague makes shouldn't be a secret. Salary transparency doesn't create problems — it exposes problems that already exist.
SaaS vendors have pricing data from thousands of deals. Buyers have pricing data from one — their own. We fix that imbalance.