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Joined February 2022
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BREAKING NEWS FOR DDI This week, I accepted an offer to join the $SOFI team in the Office of the CFO. I couldn't be more thrilled and excited for the opportunity to get to work and have a real positive and tangible effect on this company, the millions of members who use its services, and the shareholders who've invested in the vision to help people get their money right. This is a huge pivot in my career, and I can't wait for the learning and growth that's ahead of me. It also means however, that for the foreseeable future, Data Driven Investing is going to wind down. I've loved building this, sharing my analysis, debating back and forth, and learning and interacting with everyone. It's truly been my pleasure to do so. I'll still be here, and I'll definitely be seeing everything you all post, but I won't be talking about SoFi or any other individual equities. I start December 15, and I can't wait to roll up my sleeves, get to work, and make my footprint bigger than my foot. FRESH HORSES WE RIDE!
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If only I had put everything I had into $PLTR.
Palantir is now the lowest it has ever been $PLTR
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Nobody wanted $SOFI at $7 last summer. Now everyone is lining up to buy at $30. The fundamentals were always good enough to support a way higher price. The market finally caught the vision. I think there will be continued compounding over the long run from here.
I've said a bunch of times over the past 6 months that the only thing that $SOFI needed to run was a change in sentiment because the fundamentals supported a much higher price. Sentiment shifted and now everyone is trying to pile in.
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If Noto and Levchin are 19 and 18, I can't even imagine who the top 10 are $SOFI $AFRM
Fintech Magazine has placed SOFI's @anthonynoto at No.19 in FinTech Top 100 Leaders for 2025 rankings. I would put him in TOP5 but who I am to judge. :) @DataDInvesting @Futurenvesting @FunOfInvesting @Kenmegan44
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Riley Smelley retweeted
Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning. propublica.org/article/arizo…
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Time to remind every single member of my family why they should’ve listened to me about $SOFI.
$SoFi is 58% of my portfolio. 3 pennies from its all time low and my conviction has never been higher.
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Bluesky has zero ads. It’s such a calming user experience. bsky.app/profile/rileysmelle…
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Two papers. On the left, a non-randomized, non-crossover study showing that a one-off sauna exposure significantly decreased arterial stiffness, with implications on cardiovascular health. On the right, a randomized, crossover (more robust) study, showing no benefits on arterial stiffness or blood flow. Note the colossal difference in Altmetric score and media attention. The media favors sensational but flawed studies over rigorous ones, distorting public understanding. #science #media
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Nothing says ‘I lost this argument’ like a quick block. 💀 This is what confirmation bias looks like👇
You were so close. You could’ve spent 10 seconds to find the truth, but you didn’t. You immediately posted the first thing that showed Dominion voting machines have screens, and you were done. My question is, do you ever feel embarrassed by how confident you were?
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Biggest case of confirmation bias, I’ve seen this week
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Ads are popping up everywhere, claiming that Democrats are using Dominion voting machines to switch votes to @KamalaHarris This is pure propaganda, designed to divide the country. There’s absolutely no evidence to support these claims. The right has lost it.
Dem poll workers in battleground states BLATANTLY changed ballots from Trump to Biden. “I read her a Trump Republican ballot as soon as she entered it into the Dominion system the ballot DEFAULTED on the screen to a Biden."

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Donald Trump will be mad if you retweet this video that's going viral right now following Kamala Harris's decision to go on Fox News to be interviewed by Bret Baier.
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How do we protect Americans from wild conspiracy theories like ‘Democrats control hurricanes’ without undermining free speech? This kind of misinformation is dangerous, and I fear what could happen if it keeps escalating.
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Riley Smelley retweeted
Our new ad: “What happened to Mike Pence?”
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As a conservative, every Trump supporter needs to watch ‘Stopping the Steal’ on HBO. Trump knowingly lied to you and tried to overturn the 2020 election. He doesn’t care about you or our Constitution. youtu.be/DYiPxpSBhRo?si=CSLr…
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Riley Smelley retweeted
Pretty rich coming from a guy who spent 44 billion USD on one of the biggest social media platforms, and then changed its algorithm so that everyone sees his pro-Trump posts first.
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This is why this man is disrupting Silicon Valley, Wall Street and US politics. $PLTR *you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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If you want to join to debate. Comment here and give me your hot take.
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