about me

This is my journey.
Here’s the story so far…

Born ♓ and raised in the south, moved across 3 states, 2 major cities, and 6 schools in 18 years. Three sport 🏀 🎾 🏌 letter athlete in high school, studied computer science in college, and went into finance summer of 2001.

By November, I was a series 7 licensed broker making 300+ 📞 cold calls a day, finding and pitching deals to HNW investors, and spending nights learning strategies and best practices of top money managers.

Got really good at finding the right stocks and writing reports. Built positions in NXTL, WMB, AAPL, and CHKP. However, it didn’t take long to become disenchanted with industry norms (IYKYK) and after Hurricane Wilma destroyed my office 🏢 decided to start a research service for DIY investors. This was well before newsletters were in vogue.

Spent the next decade picking winners across the capital markets and managing private assets for a select group of clients. By 2015, I had begun working more with entrepreneurs and executives – turning investment strategies into models for better business development.

From 2002 to 2018, my research handily outperformed the S&P 500 with close to 75% accuracy. Subscribers included affluent investors and financial professionals with total assets under management reaching into the billions.

During that run, I helped to create and write the premium newsletter at GuruFocus and have since published over 600 📝 articles, many seen on major financial news sites. Along the way, coached 20+ executives, 2 from the Fortune 1000, and wrote a book 📖 on better investing.

In 2018, I decided to close my trade alert service in order to start a a new service focused on business development, designed mostly for SMEs. Then my grandmother passed, the Covid-19 pandemic happened, my wife gave birth our first child – all in successive years. To say the least my life changed.

Today, as of March 2024, I am having a lot of fun being a dad, ready to play more golf in the year to come and continue to build out Key Bridge. Work with me here… or access my content database here.

Links

Socials

Personal Stuff

  • Scratch golfer when playing regularly
  • Big fan of English football, $MANU
  • Had a ~40” vertical in college, can probably still dunk
  • Love music; find me dancing making pancakes on the weekend
  • Avid (albeit average) chess player

Content Database

Search over 1,000 posts on topics across
business, finance, and capital markets.

Technological Change Jonathan Poland

Technological Change

Technological change refers to the development and adoption of new technologies and the ways in which they transform society and…

Types of Revolution Jonathan Poland

Types of Revolution

A revolution is a sudden and significant change to the structure and foundations of a society, often involving conflict and…

Infrastructure Risk Jonathan Poland

Infrastructure Risk

Infrastructure risk refers to the potential negative consequences that a business may face as a result of failures in core…

Collective Intelligence Jonathan Poland

Collective Intelligence

Collective intelligence refers to the ability of a group to solve problems, make decisions, and generate new ideas more effectively…

Marketing Costs Jonathan Poland

Marketing Costs

Marketing costs are expenses that are related to promoting and selling products or services to customers. These costs can include…

Ecotax Jonathan Poland

Ecotax

An ecotax is a tax levied on activities that have a negative impact on the environment. It is intended to…

Sales Jonathan Poland

Sales

Sales is the process of establishing relationships with potential customers, discovering their needs and preferences, presenting solutions to their problems,…

White Labeling Jonathan Poland

White Labeling

White label refers to products or services that are produced and designed by one company specifically for the purpose of…

Daily Goals Jonathan Poland

Daily Goals

Daily goals are targets that you set for yourself to achieve on a particular day. These can include habits that…