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Wealth Systems: Start Building Today

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Matt McDonagh
Mar 16, 2024
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As someone who's walked the hallowed halls of Wall Street as an investment banker, and now sits behind a screen writing code as a data engineer and developer, I've seen both sides of the wealth coin. There's the adrenaline-fueled, high-stakes world of billion-dollar deals, but also the quiet power of compounding interest working its magic over time.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the thrill of deal-making and the intellectual challenge of financial modeling.

But somewhere along the way, I discovered a new kind of thrill: building systems that streamline and automate the path to financial freedom. It's a shift from analyzing other people's wealth to meticulously building my own.

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Today, I'm not just an investor, but a wealth engineer.

I design systems for my family office, leveraging the same problem-solving mindset I honed on Wall Street, but with a singula…

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