Howard Lindzon built his investing edge through an unusual combination of trading, media entrepreneurship, and technology, starting as a stockbroker and hedge-fund manager before creating Wallstrip (a satirical finance show acquired by CBS) and co-founding StockTwits, where he invented the now-ubiquitous "cashtag" ($AAPL) that turned Twitter into structured financial data. He was an early, conviction-based backer of category-defining fintechs like Robinhood and eToro before "fintech" was mainstream, and he uses his public-market experience and comedy sensibility to communicate openly about disciplined exits and returning cash to investors rather than chasing paper marks. Howard Lindzon built his investing edge through an unusual combination of trading, media entrepreneurship, and technology, starting as a stockbroker and hedge-fund manager before creating Wallstrip (a satirical finance show acquired by CBS) and co-founding StockTwits, where he invented the now-ubiquitous "cashtag" ($AAPL) that turned Twitter into structured financial data. He was an early, conviction-based backer of category-defining fintechs like Robinhood and eToro before "fintech" was mainstream, and he uses his public-market experience and comedy sensibility to communicate openly about disciplined exits and returning cash to investors rather than chasing paper marks.