TL;DR
Treating finance writing as a long-running business, with a fixed platform, a fixed beat and a paywall, the author built 100,000 followers and 700 paying subscribers on X in just over a year.
The author opened a blue check on X and hit 100,000 followers thirteen months later.
Set up the stall first
In August 2025 the author paid for a blue check on X, the platform's paid identity badge.
With the badge came a fixed name, and with it a serious habit of posting long finance threads and essays. Content from an older blog got restaged on this new stall.
There is a second, paying layer
In June 2026 came paid membership: subscribers can send direct messages and read finance essays written only for them.
On the day the follower count passed 100,000, paying subscribers passed 700. The 100,000 is the shopfront; the 700 is the till.
The numbers are really about output
In just over a year: more than 2,600 posts and essays, with individual popular pieces read over 200,000 times.
That averages about five a day. Not inspiration — a rota. The author thanks readers and promises to keep writing.
Politely put, the business now works: free content pulls a crowd, then the membership filters out the small slice willing to pay.
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