10,000 Followers, 1,000 Subscribers, and a Dad‑Made Plaque

100k subscribers!

That’s the goal… my dad got me these “creator plaques” for 10,000 LinkedIn followers and 1,000 YouTube subscribers.

Definitely not the official YouTube gold play button… but honestly, these mean more.

When I started posting, it was hard to tell if the content was landing at all. Things like:

Tax-aware hedge funds
Tax-aware long/short SMAs
REPS and real estate
Box spread loans

Not exactly “5 tips to save more money” content.

Slowly, people started showing up.

The fact that there are now 10,000 of you on LinkedIn and 1,000 on YouTube paying attention genuinely blows my mind.

A few things I’ve learned along the way:

Consistency beats clever. The posts that resonate most are usually simple, real client case studies.
Specific beats generic. “$10M founder with no tax plan” lands harder than “retirement planning tips.”
The right people want depth. Not watered-down content.

So thank you—for reading, watching, commenting, and challenging me.

And thanks to my dad for the plaques that remind me this weekend that the work is actually reaching people.

I want to make the content in 2026 even more useful for you.

What do you want more of?

Drop a comment with what would be most valuable, and I’ll build around that.

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