Yet another Holy Sh*t moment ... @joinautopilot was just mentioned on the floor of the house while debating a bill to ban congressional stock trading "35 members of congress beat the S&P500 last year" "One of the biggest stock trader wins in this is an app called Autopilot" "That tracks the trades of Nancy pelosi and her husband" When we started Autopilot & the Pelosi Tracker, our goal wasn't initially to make people tons of money or build this huge following It was to expose the hypocrisy of politicians trading by building the first way for retail to trade alongside them Because what better way to highlight that hypocrisy, than to literally get involved in it. Now on the app, she alone has 140,000+ everyday Americans investing $ 500M+ alongside her personal stock picks It's just pretty insane to see how big it's gotten

After building Autopilot for the past few years something I’ve been surprised about is some of the most popular investors aren't the politicians or well known hedge funds It's the investors sharing their actual stock picks and doing almost real time investing For example, there’s an investor named @peterjwolff who runs his 'Wolff Flagship Fund'. This 'fund' is his own personal stock picks that he updates whenever he sees a new opportunity That portfolio since launch now has $180,000,000 of capital invested alongside And trades probably once a month or so Or take @michaelsikand 's 'Photonics is next' portfolio. This one is more thematic, but mirrors his general research on where he thinks the world of AI is heading That portfolio has $21M Autopiloting it while it’s up 65% since inception And this one updates more sporadically as the volatility in that portfolio is higher I think these 'near real time' portfolios are so popular honestly because the majority of retail investors that I speak with don’t have the time nor confidence to pick their own investments, so now they’re turning to these investors to do the investing for them So it turns out it's not purely just 'alpha' that we see retail chasing. It's also active investing because of the reality that the markets more than ever are fluctuating so fast it's hard to keep up

Something that needs to be talked about more is how men lowkey don't have many ways to create side hustles around their passions. Women have an entire ecosystem it. GRWM. Fashion. Beauty. Etsy. DePop. Affiliate marketing. There are proven playbooks. Men have fewer obvious ones, maybe sports betting or gaming, but that's about it. I feel like we're entering an era where investing changes that men. Now platforms like Substack, subscriptions on X, or launching a portfolio on Autopilot are making it possible for men passionate about investing are monetize what they enjoy doing. Below is a chart comparing the annual earnings of hedge fund managers, creators, and athletes. The economics of investing have always been enormous but the issue is they've just been inaccessible to everyone except professional money managers. As investing becomes increasingly social and transparent, I think there will be thousands of men will build $20K–$50K/year side businesses around newsletters, paid communities, and investable portfolios.