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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What Is NIL? How College Athletes Are Getting Paid — And What They're Doing With the Money ft. Joey McGuire
Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire breaks down the economics of modern college football: NIL, revenue sharing, the transfer portal, and how today's athletes are building wealth.
Marvel & Disney’s IP Playbook: Protecting Digital Assets in the Age of AI
How major studios think about intellectual property, digital ownership, and protecting valuable creative assets as artificial intelligence reshapes content creation, distribution, and monetization.
The 2-Year Rule: Securing Your First Public Board Seat While Still in the C-Suite
Former United CMO joins to discuss the "inside baseball" of airline loyalty programs and how to intentionally design a high-impact post-corporate career.
Why Your Professional "Opus" Should Never Be Finished ft. Andy Louis-Charles
Discover why the happiest high-performers chase unachievable goals and how franchising is shifting from a "job replacement" to a scalable wealth-building engine.
Are You Over-Optimizing Your Finances? Chris Hutchins from All the Hacks on the 80/20 Rule
How high-performing professionals balance financial optimization with quality of life and why focusing on the biggest financial decisions matters more than maximizing every small detail.
How to Sell Your SaaS Company: Lessons from the Highest Deal Volume Year Ever
How SaaS founders prepare for exits, run competitive deal processes, and navigate valuation, earnouts, and rollover equity when selling companies to private equity or strategic buyers.
Inside a 160-Year-Old Family Office: What Seven Generations of Wealth Management Teaches Us
A rare look at how multi-generational family offices preserve wealth through governance, disciplined investing, and thoughtful capital allocation across decades.
Selling to Private Equity Vs. Strategic Buyers ft. Eric Wiklendt
How founders evaluate private equity versus strategic acquirers, and what each path means for valuation, deal structure, company control, and long-term strategic outcomes.
How Human Genetics Is Changing Drug Development ft. Eric Green
How advances in human genetics are transforming drug discovery and reshaping how scientists identify disease targets, develop therapies, and approach the future of medicine.
From Marine Corps Interrogator to Cyber Intelligence CEO ft. Jason Passwaters
An inside look at how cybercrime networks operate globally and how investigators track sophisticated digital threats across financial systems, international borders, and online infrastructure.
The 100-Year Investment: Inside the World of Music Catalog Acquisitions
How investors evaluate music catalog acquisitions, why copyright royalties have become an investable asset class, and how intellectual property can generate durable long-term cash flows.
Fortune 500 to Private Equity CEO: Better Work-Life Balance?
A discussion about leadership transitions from large corporations into private equity-backed companies and whether the move actually improves autonomy, decision-making authority, and work-life balance.
Hollywood’s Economics, AI, and the Future of Film ft. Jonathan Erlich
How streaming disruption, artificial intelligence, and changing studio economics are reshaping how films are financed, produced, and distributed.
How Successful Wealth Builders Rate Professional Services: 2025 Benchmark Data
Insights from Long Angle’s benchmark research reveal how experienced investors evaluate advisors, attorneys, accountants, and other professional services supporting complex financial decisions.
How to Evaluate Stocks Like Achieve Markets: Beating Returns ft. David Gardner
A conversation about how long-term investors evaluate businesses, identify enduring companies, and develop conviction needed to outperform markets over long investment horizons.
How Screens, Schooling & AI Shape Today’s Kids and Careers ft. Michael Horn
How technology, remote learning, and artificial intelligence are reshaping education, childhood development, and the skills required for future careers.
Women’s Soccer Investing, AI Disruption & Global Trends ft. Daniel Altman
An exploration of how global sports economics, emerging leagues, and technological disruption are shaping the future of professional sports and the business opportunities surrounding them.
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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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