The Orange-Pilled Advisor: Building a Bitcoin-First Wealth Management Firm From Scratch
About this episode
Matt Golliher discusses the challenges of building a Bitcoin-focused wealth management firm from a traditional practice.
Most people think getting orange-pilled is the hard part. Matt Golliher, financial advisor and co-founder of Orange Horizon Wealth, says convincing yourself is easy… rebuilding your entire practice around Bitcoin is where the real work starts. Wyatt sits down with Matt Golliher to unpack what it actually took to transform a traditional, profitable RIA into one of the only fully Bitcoin-focused wealth management firms in the country. From compliance and custody to E&O insurance and custodian relationships, Matt walks through every brick wall Vista Investment Partners had to knock down, and rebuild, before Orange Horizon Wealth could go live in May 2024. Matt Golliher shares his path from dismissing Bitcoin as "digital Beanie Babies" in 2017 to obsessively researching it through the pandemic, the moment reading The Bitcoin Standard made him start sweating, and why getting orange-pilled at a bank would have ended his career as a financial advisor. They get into the three real options for Bitcoin-convicted advisors stuck at legacy firms, how Swan Bitcoin became the only viable custodian for spot Bitcoin at the time, and the nuts and bolts of how Orange Horizon operates as a DBA…
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