2Q25 Buyside Hub Update

Welcome back!

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Alright, let’s get into it and talk about Buyside Hub’s 2Q update.

In mid January, I formally launched Buyside Hub, the compensation and culture platform I was begging to have when I first started on the Buyside.

Some Founding Color:

While I’ll be semi-private, let me talk a bit about the spark behind getting Buyside Hub set up.

I was taking a well needed trip from the desk. Everything was going great at work. Everything was going great with HYH. But I knew the HYH financial profile wasn’t quite self-sustaining enough. I’m very conscious that I’m going to have adapt my content over time and that meme-ing will turn into a hobby, as opposed to the growth engine when I get deep into my 30s.

So it was clear to be there was some sort of inflection point.

I had decided to go to Iceland. I was inspired a bit by someone’s prior post on Iceland, where they laid out how Reykjavik is an elite party town. Additionally, the aesthetic of “A Murder at the End of the World”, a Hulu murder-mystery miniseries set in Iceland inspired me a bit.

Despite the cold weather, it was an amazing trip. I spent a lot of time in saunas, steam rooms, and hot tubs. Just unwinding and relaxing for once. I went to the Sky Lagoon and did their Skjól bathing ritual. But a big part of the trip was to seek inspiration and direction. I was trying to look inward and find some answers on how I can make what I want possible. The realization, while sitting in the steam room, was that if I was serious about providing value for everyone following the High Yield Harry accounts, I couldn’t do low-hanging-fruit stuff and needed to create an actual platform to help the people I distribute content to. I’m a big believer in “In order for me to win, everyone else needs to win first”

Following the trip, I sat down and essentially did the following:

1) wrote down every single business serving financial professionals that already existed

2) thought about the problems I have, that bankers or the buyside have, and tried to think about where I could plug in and help folks

This was a very detailed pro and con process. A lot of the initial hurdles that came to me were related to the breadth of content or scale.

But given the success of prior compensation surveys, and given my prior issues having trouble learning more about buyside firms I was interviewing at, it was a no-brainer that enhancing wall street compensation analytics and figuring out a solution to help folks find buyside jobs was a no brainer next step. As a buyside guy myself, I’m incredibly passionate about the mission of helping buyside folks figure out compensation trends, firm culture, and enhance their interview preparation.

Comp Survey Update:

As you may know, we had this year’s Wall Street Compensation Survey completed on Buyside Hub.

But the most powerful section of our platform is going to be our Industry Analytics page; which is only available for contributing and paid subscribers. We believe this tells you all very powerful things regarding compensation. We spent a lot of time on building out a robust dashboard that analyzes compensation, hours worked, and deferred compensation by industry.

Mobile Update:

A big thing we struggled with early on was that for some reason Buyside Hub wasn’t working as well within the browser you’d open on Instagram. Which isn’t great for an account that is so heavily focused on marketing on Instagram. It was working great on a laptop, but this was a big problem. Alas, we have fixed it! But still recommend you view in a browser on your phone or on your desktop.

Our software team has taken a hard look at the mobile experience and is continuously working towards optimizing it for everyone.

Job Board Update:

When you have emotion that drives you at work or in business, it can be hard to keep your emotions in check. It’s hard to write without my eyes watering, how important it is to me that people get jobs from Buyside Hub. We’re building this platform to have a significant amount of relevant buyside jobs for professionals. We want people looking for jobs and applying for jobs to be part of the flow of thousands, if not tens of thousands investment professionals.

We’ve started working with folks who are making critical hires and helping them get in front of this smart and hardworking audience.

We’re engaged in dialogue with Search firms and Companies on how we can get the ball rolling and provide solutions for them.

Ultimately, the scale and reach, supplemented with a very niche audience is almost unparalleled.

The long-term roadmap:

Eventually, I want to stop saying that we have thousands of users and want to instead say that we have tens-of-thousands of users. You can be a part of that mission by signing up here - but I’ll explain further.

Buyside Hub by design is a platform that gets better every time a new user comes on and contributes data and firm insights, and every time a new applicant applies to a job on Buyside Hub and has a successful outcome or a good interview. This is a highly niche platform, but the more people that sign up the bigger snowball this gets come Spring of 2026 (the next big comp season).

We’re pushing aggressively to grow the platform and get you guys buyside jobs, and think our distribution, speed, scrappiness, and fresh data are going to help add value for you all. The fresh data part is really important as we are pushing out recent comp data and relevant firm culture insights.

Silvio Dante once told Paulie Walnuts “You're only as good as your last envelope.” A lot of Wall Street professionals say a similar phrase often: “What have you done for me lately?” Aka your historical accomplishments and prior successes don’t matter anymore if you haven’t produced or performed lately.

The way I viewed compensation data collection was somewhat similar. It doesn’t matter if there’s a site that has a head start - if all their shit is stale or antiquated then it’s less valuable. Current compensation trends and firm culture insights is what matters. That’s why I think our fresh data is so compelling.

The Three Legs of the Stool approach to building a business: When I started Buyside Hub, I wanted to take a three legs of the stool approach. This means having three different core capabilities. These were meant to be 1) Compensation Data and Firm Culture Insights, 2) the Job Board and Recruiting and 3) The Discussion Board.

As a credit investor, I focus on the downside case head on. The way I’ve described the three legs to folks is if one part of the chair gets hit, the stool is still standing up right.

The discussion board is the part of the business that has totally fallen flat on its face. People are coming on the site for the Job Board and to access Comp data instead. I’ll probably run some AMAs there, but it’s definitely not the core focus (and is by far the least monetizable part of the business). But we don’t need to divulge further, since we’re focused on the parts of the business that provides the most value for folks.

In replacement of the discussion board, we have a new 3rd leg of the stool - we’ve been amassing interview question data. In time, we’re going to spit out very accurate and up-to-date interview questions that you should expect to see in interviews. This will be categorized by firm, by industry, and by job title. I think this information is very powerful in terms of being prepared for your interviews.

Financing:

I’ve thankfully had a couple good years on Wall Street that give a lot of optionality in terms of bootstrapping Buyside Hub.

But we are evaluating Seedstrapping, aka raising one round of funding and then reaching sustainable profitability.

Do you have LinkedIn on your phone? You do? You gotta download Buyside Hub as well then.

Download Buyside Hub as an App on your phone (without the App Store)

Here’s how to download the Buyside Hub App:

1. Access the website link in the browser and click the share button (I highlighted)

2. Click the Add to Home Screen Button

3. Click “Add” and boom! You now have the Buyside Hub App!

I’d like to hear from you:

Are you a user on Buyside Hub or a member of the Buyside who is not yet on Buyside Hub. I’d love to hear from either of you. Please feel to reply and our contact email is [email protected] - you can reach us from there anytime.

Will it into existence:

I’ve been playing soccer once a week lately. Let me use this analogy to express how competitive I am and how dedicated I am to the mission of providing you guys value. The first week, I was super washed up, only scored one goal, and was far too out of shape for my liking. So I spent 5 of the next 6 days running sprints and pushing my cardio. The next week I scored 4 goals, but this isn’t fucking good enough frankly. The reason this isn’t good enough is because I let my team down, as my actions let the other team score 2 goals. Where an errant pass from me initiated a drive where the other team scored. Where me getting tired led to the other team scoring. That’s unacceptable, and the answer has been to continue training during the prep days so I don’t let my team down. I have the same approach with the future of Buyside Hub and High Yield Harry - I want to score goals, but I also want to deliver, improve, and add more and more value across the board.

I’m a firm believer in the ability to will things into existence. There’s a point where you can’t force someone to do xyz, but I’m pounding the table on how committed I am to making this platform great and giving people a significant amount of value. I’m spending every day working on ways to try to make sure people will get hired into their dream buyside jobs from Buyside Hub.

By Spring 2026, this is going to be great, so I encourage you to get on board today 🤝 

Best,

Harry

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