The decisions that come with financial success are different. Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators actually approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.
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How Movies Make Money: What Changed When Streaming Took Over
Hollywood has never produced more content. It has also rarely been harder to make money from it — at least if you are not the platform. The economics that once rewarded hits with a decade of residuals, and spread studio risk across 30-plus films a year, have been fundamentally rewired.
How Much Does a CPA Cost for Complex Returns and High-Net-Worth Investors
Four in five Long Angle members use a CPA. Of those, 42% are considering switching - and another 4% are thinking about stopping altogether. That level of dissatisfaction sits alongside an average satisfaction rating of 7.1 out of 10, the lowest of any financial service in the survey.
How to Evaluate a Stock: What Financial Statements Don't Tell You
David Gardner co-founded The Motley Fool and built a 30-year record of 100-bagger picks. His argument: traditional valuation metrics miss the inputs that actually drive returns.
Technology in the Classroom: What Actually Has to Change
Michael Horn spent two decades studying education model disruption. His take on screens, AI in schools, the workforce readiness gap, and what college selection really comes down to.
Gold vs. S&P 500: What the Performance Gap Reveals About Your Portfolio
Gold has outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 20 years. Economist Dan Altman explains what that means for investors with concentrated domestic portfolios and why the dollar matters more than most realize.
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Tad Fallows
CEO and Co-Founder of Long Angle, a peer community for first-generation wealth-creators. He previously co-founded iLab Solutions and bootstrapped the software company to serve 80% of world’s leading research universities. Tad started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He studied economic history at Harvard, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
Sriram Gollapalli
President and Co-Founder of Long Angle, helping guide the community’s focus on personal finance, investing, and peer learning. He previously co-founded iLab Solutions, later acquired by Agilent, where he led enterprise SaaS and cloud operations. Sriram is also an active angel investor and mentor with interests in enterprise SaaS, healthcare, and education.
Matt Shechtman
CEO of Long Angle Management, where he oversees strategy and institutional investments. His work spans sourcing, diligence, and execution across private equity, credit, real estate, and other assets. Before Long Angle, Matt founded and exited two companies, practiced real estate finance at Jones Day, and clerked on the United States Court Court of Appeals (5th Circuit).
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