Welcome back.
Remarkably, it’s been six years since I first started the High Yield Harry (“HYH”) page. I’ll keep it <1,000 words, but I want to spend time thanking everyone who has tagged along and talking a little bit about what’s been going on.
There are 3 core properties I focus on. I hope you can join and participate in all three:
3) Buyside Hub
I started the HYH page during the midst of covid. I had been following the first wave of finance meme pages as an Intern & Analyst and couldn’t get enough of it. But I was also noticing some of these pages starting to fizzle out.
Seeing pages die off has been sad, but the former owners of these pages were making more $$$ at their day job. In many ways, there’s a last man standing feeling though.
From July 2020 to early 2023, I was pretty much doing it for the love of the game. I was always thinking that at 35 I’d be able to “walk away” from finance and do something different, but I had been starting to think mid 2026 would be a better time to quit finance. It would align perfectly with the FIFA World Cup, where I could take time to travel and see a bunch of games. Ultimately, I did this. So in June 2023 I realized I needed to roll up sleeves and get serious about scaling this business beyond beer & date money.
What’s happened since has resulted in over 1.2mm social media followers, 160k+ newsletter readers, and an actual software company → Buyside Hub.
A lot of my experience and why I created Buyside Hub, as well as the educational content I put out there, is because I had to brute force my way into the industry. And because I had to look down the barrel with potential layoffs/restructurings.
I feel like I had to deal with trying to find new seats more than the average professional. A lot of it is partially my fault because I joined institutions that weren’t performing the best or had the most credit risk. If I had a better understanding of restructuring/asset-sale/outsourcing risks then maybe I could’ve avoided some situations. That’s why Buyside Hub is here to help give professionals an inside view.
With your help, I was thankfully able to escape the overhang for layoffs and instead focus on job creation (plus keeping everyone entertained and informed throughout the day).
Business building, and being able to pay team members, are a couple of the more rewarding things we’ve done so far in the journey. So much of finance is about layoffs, layoffs, layoffs - and that’s never how I wanted to operate. In my career, I came across too many weak, spineless “men” who were not job creators, but were losers who created value through layoffs rather than organizational growth. Unironically hearing “I’m sorry, but we have shareholders” was a radicalizing moment for me. This is part of why you’ve noticed more HYH Newsletter pieces focusing on how PE firms focused on layoffs, aggressive cost cutting, and aggressive sales tactics are hollowing out this country.
So, yeah, business wise - everything is going well: Sure, we had another meme page try to vibe-code copy us, but I think everyone is smart enough to see through that. For me, Buyside Hub is everything, because the feeling of potentially losing your job is so stomach-turning that I’m going to work as hard as possible on this front.
Business is booming, the amount of content I’m getting out weekly far outpaces the amount of advertising we’re putting out there. We’re also able to be quite selective about advertising partners, something I expect to continue into 2027.
The Latest on X:
Notice, X is growing like a Rocket
I am uber-competitive, and my intensity bleeds out into the open, but I think it’s all about the right things. While I need to scale up in the short-term, for me, it’s not necessarily all about the money, it’s more about freedom, saying “told you so” to doubters, and making a difference during my time here. You can’t take the money with you, and legacy withers away like the great Ozymandias.
You will notice that I will start leveraging my distribution for more than just the business as it exists today. I’ve really needed to focus on the core stuff in order to reach the scale I need to get, but I think there’s a lot of exciting things to achieve over the next decade.
This starts with the Buyside Hub community-driven mission of getting people jobs and higher comp. With more collaboration with firms, I think the opportunities will dramatically increase.
If you have a moment, take a look below at many of the things we’re building:
Buyside Hub: This is my main focus. I think this is an incredible opportunity to provide the community with jobs and help with compensation and offer acceptance decisions. Take a moment to join, because I’m so excited to keep scaling this.
With 15,000+ Users, it means there’s still a lot more folks to get onboarded to the platform. If you have a moment, take the time to join up:
High Yield Harry: The focus is moving from IG to X given that is where the community, interactions, reach, and money are.
If you’re recruiting for credit roles, I’d encourage that you sign up for HYH Premium to access all of my former recruiting materials. We will be adding IB recruiting materials to HYH Premium very soon.
The paid side of our newsletter also covers our overhead so we can keep doing deep-dive writeups.
The Wall Street Rollup: This is our 3x week short-form newsletter that focuses on all the news you
Other:
Thank you so much for your role in tagging along. Here’s to a great 2H26!
-Harry
If I can be helpful - [email protected]
