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Sam Silverman
Your Exit Tax Bill Is Shaped Years Before You Sell

Oct 1, 2026

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4 min read

Your Exit Tax Bill Is Shaped Years Before You Sell

Brian Lamb explains how buying your shares, structuring a sale, and transferring equity to a trust can affect your tax bill, and your control over the proceeds.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
How much money do you need to be rich?

Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

How much money do you need to be rich?

Why your first million might not change your daily life, and how pricing the life you actually want gives you a clearer financial target.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
After 200+ Startup Investments, He's Investing Less in Startups

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

After 200+ Startup Investments, He's Investing Less in Startups

Why a winning startup investment can still leave you waiting for cash, plus the spending habits that can outlive the reasons you started saving.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
A Great Investment Can Still Be a Terrible Investment for You

Sep 21, 2026

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4 min read

A Great Investment Can Still Be a Terrible Investment for You

Why the same $250k investment can make perfect sense for one person and be a huge mistake for someone else.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Brett Swarts

Sep 16, 2026

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4 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Brett Swarts

Why a founder’s exit can turn an owner into a lender, plus the investing blind spot that can survive a successful business sale.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
How I Would Invest $1M Today

Sep 11, 2026

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2 min read

How I Would Invest $1M Today

Why I use cash flow to fund a longer-term bet, and why more deals don’t always mean more diversification.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Andy Louis-Charles

Sep 10, 2026

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4 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Andy Louis-Charles

Why a $100M franchise system is not $100M of franchisor revenue, plus the recurring service opportunity that can remain after a restaurant closes.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Brian Portnoy

Sep 4, 2026

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4 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Brian Portnoy

Why a $100M portfolio can still feel empty, plus the simplicity premium hiding beneath the polished complexity of alternative investments.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Sam Jacobs

Aug 27, 2026

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5 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Sam Jacobs

Why $500K of income can become a trap, plus the ownership math that changes a 20-year career.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Jeremy Roll

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Jeremy Roll

Why a $10M exit can trigger a bad allocation, plus the illiquidity premium Jeremy Roll refuses to waive.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Martin Tobias

Aug 14, 2026

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6 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Martin Tobias

Why a $500 million paper fortune wasn't real liquidity, plus the venture math that can tolerate 80% zeros while waiting for a 100x outlier.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
Three seats in a deal, and why almost nobody gets offered more than one

Aug 12, 2026

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4 min read

Three seats in a deal, and why almost nobody gets offered more than one

Almost every private investment you've been shown puts you in the same position.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Megan McCoy

Aug 5, 2026

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6 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Megan McCoy

70% of people haven't talked to a living soul about money in a year, plus the $20 experiment that still works even when you force people into it.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Colin Stroud

Aug 1, 2026

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5 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Colin Stroud

A $30,000 Christmas week that cost nothing out of pocket, and why chasing airline status is mostly a waste of your time.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Jerome Myers

Jul 22, 2026

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4 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Jerome Myers

The $44M founder who won't take a vacation, and why the hardest part of an exit has nothing to do with the deal.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Noah Rosenfarb, CPA

Jul 16, 2026

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3 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Noah Rosenfarb, CPA

The tax strategies behind eight and nine-figure exits, and what a decade of 27% IRRs going to zero taught him.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
The last two weeks on Mechanics of Money: Arman Taheri and Sarah Miskelly

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

The last two weeks on Mechanics of Money: Arman Taheri and Sarah Miskelly

A founder who built an eight-figure company around the life he wanted, and a fund manager who moved to Costa Rica with three kids and runs her whole business from a laptop.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
This week on Mechanics of Money: Tad Fallows

Jul 3, 2026

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3 min read

This week on Mechanics of Money: Tad Fallows

What 8,000 HNW investors actually buy, plus a live panel on where they're putting capital now.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
Record Growth = Record Cash Outlay

Jul 1, 2026

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2 min read

Record Growth = Record Cash Outlay

Issue #25 - Two quick wins from the platform this quarter, and one new development behind them.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
Why we stopped buying companies for nine months

Jun 22, 2026

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5 min read

Why we stopped buying companies for nine months

Issue #24 - Anyone with a spreadsheet and some capital can buy a business. The hard part is everything that comes after, and almost none of it lives in the numbers you underwrote.

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman
I Rent on Purpose

Jun 16, 2026

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5 min read

I Rent on Purpose

Issue #23

Sam Silverman
Sam Silverman

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