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by Christopher Nelson
Welcome to Managing Tech Millions!http://www.managingtechmillions.com/This is the podcast where your tech-driven success meets innovative wealth strategies.Hosted by Christopher Nelson—3x IPO tech executive and private equity expert—this show dives deep into how to protect, grow, and transform your hard-earned millions into a legacy.From private equity and real estate to maximizing equity compensation, we break down the strategies used by the ultra-wealthy to help you take control of your financial future. Whether managing your first exit, equity tranche or scaling toward lasting financial independence, this is your blueprint for building wealth like a pro. Tune in, take action, and make your millions work harder than you do.
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- 5 days ago10 min
Protecting Your Wealth Is Hard Until You Focus on These 4 Tasks
The moment your wealth becomes worth protecting is the exact moment the financial industry stops serving you. Too complex for retail advice. Too small for the family office built for hundred-million-dollar fortunes. Welcome to the service desert—where defending everything you've built falls to one person. You.And here's what nobody warns you about: your wealth isn't facing one threat. It's facing four, all at once. The market that built it. The world that can sue you for it. The IRS that quietly drains it every single year. And time itself, which decides whether any of it outlasts you. Most people at your level defend against one, maybe two—and leave the other doors wide open.You don't need to be a financial genius to close all four. You need to execute on four specific tasks. The exact four I focused on first when protecting my own $8M portfolio.I'll walk you through each one—and show you why they're not independent. Done right, each defense reinforces the others, until your wealth stops being a pile you anxiously guard and becomes a business that defends itself.Let's keep building.
- 1 weeks ago11 min
The Kind of Portfolio That Makes You Immune to Market Swings
Most retirement advice tells you to survive market swings with more diversification, more bonds, more cash on the sidelines. I'm going to show you why that entire premise is backwards.Here's the uncomfortable truth: a 20% drop doesn't hurt you. Being forced to sell into that drop does. And the traditional retirement model all but guarantees that moment arrives. There's even a name for it in the research, and two retirees with the identical average return can have wildly different outcomes based on nothing but timing.In this video, I put two models side by side using a real $3 million portfolio. One is the drawdown plan your advisor recommends. The other is the evergreen structure the ultra-wealthy actually build. Same income. Completely different outcome. And when I show you what the wealthiest families keep in the public markets, it's going to surprise you.If you have $1M–$30M and you're serious about income that ignores the market's mood, watch to the end.Let's keep building.
- 2 weeks ago8 min
99% of Wealthy Families Don't Know How to Protect, Grow, and Pass Down their wealth
If you have between one and thirty million dollars, you've probably done what almost everyone does: handed it to an advisor, paid the fee, and hoped the money outlasts you. That's the 99%. And it's not your fault—no one ever handed you the playbook.The ultra-wealthy don't hope. For over a century they've used a specific structure to run their wealth like a business built to outlast them. Not a better stock pick. Not a better advisor. A better structure.I'm Christopher Nelson. I left a tech career, built my own Micro Family Office, and learned the hard way that the entire financial industry is built to take your assets under management—not to teach you this. So I reverse-engineered what the big family offices do and scaled it down.In this video I'll walk you through the four phases and the seven components that turn a pile of investments into a wealth business you actually control. Watch this before you hand another dollar to anyone.
- 3 weeks ago38 min
1B+ Family Office CIO: "Before You Invest a Dollar, DO THIS!"
Most first-generation wealth builders make the same move: they cross the million-dollar threshold and immediately ask "where should I invest?" That question is the trap. And it's costing you more than you realize.In this conversation, I sit down with Marco Quevedo—my friend from our UCSD days, a Wharton MBA, and now the Chief Investment Officer of a nine-figure family office. Marco has helped start multiple family offices from scratch, and he walks through exactly how billion-dollar operations architect their wealth—goals before thesis, thesis before allocation.Here's what surprised me most: the best investors aren't the ones who are great at saying yes. They're the ones who say no—fast, and without guilt. Marco explains why "it doesn't fit our thesis" is a complete sentence, and how that single discipline separates the operators from the hopeful.We cover goal-setting, the investment thesis, allocation buckets, governance, and the cadence that keeps it all alive. Then Marco leaves you with one piece of advice about the empty seat in your financial life. Watch to the end for that one.
- Jun 30, 202616 min
Family Office CEO Ranks Every Income Investment BEST to WORST (For Experienced Investors)
I Ranked Every Income Investment, Best to Worst — One Popular Pick Got an FMost income advice gets one thing backwards: it ranks investments as if there's a single right answer for everyone. There isn't.So I did something different. I took every income vehicle worth knowing — annuities, covered call ETFs, private credit, REITs, syndications, BDCs, muni bonds, the ones your advisor pitches and the ones they've never mentioned — and I graded all of them, S through F.But here's the catch that changes everything: I graded them for one specific investor. $5 million, five years from drawing income, comfortable in private markets. Change that investor, and some of these grades flip completely. One of the most popular income products on the market earns a flat F. And a vehicle most people have never had pitched to them lands at the very top.I'll show you exactly why — and the five dimensions of diversification almost everyone gets wrong, even with a dozen positions.Watch the full ranking, then build your own. Let's keep building.
- Jun 23, 202611 min
5 Mistakes To Avoid When Buying Your Next Covered Call ETF
The Truth About Covered Call ETFs Nobody Tells YouCovered call ETFs might be the most blindly bought income product on the market right now. And almost everyone picks the same way: they chase the biggest yield number on the website.Here's what that number won't tell you. The yield is what you receive. It says nothing about what you actually keep. I learned this the hard way when I started moving capital into these funds—capital that's part of a portfolio generating over $200,000 a year in income. I nearly made several expensive mistakes myself. I caught them because I went deep: I broke down the strategies, the fund structures, and the tax treatment most investors never look at.In this video, I walk through the five biggest mistakes people make with covered call ETFs—and exactly what to do instead. One of them has nothing to do with which fund you pick, and it quietly costs people thousands every single year.Get these right, and you'll be operating at a level most investors never reach. Let's keep building.
- Jun 16, 20269 min
Have $1M–$30M? Here's How to Grow, Protect, and Pass It Down (7 Steps)
You're Too Big for the App—and Too Small for the Family OfficeIf your net worth sits somewhere between one and thirty million dollars, you're stuck in a place nobody built for you. Too big for the retail app on your phone. Too small for the single family office running things for the ultra-wealthy. So you default to the only option anyone ever handed you: give it all to an advisor, pay the fee year after year, and watch the accounts draw down—until the money runs out, or you do.There's a second path. Five years ago I built my own Micro Family Office on the same seven components that run hundred-million-dollar family offices—scaled to my situation. In this video I walk through every one, and how they lock together into a system you actually run.Here's what most people get wrong: you don't build all seven on day one, and the sophisticated version of a few is not what wins. Stick around to the end—I'll show you how to score yourself across all seven, so you know exactly where you stand and what to fix first.Let's keep building.
- Jun 9, 202615 min
You NEED a Micro Family Office (if you have $1M-$30M NW)
You Don't Need a Better Advisor. You Need a Better Structure.As your wealth grows — one million to two, two to five — you outgrow your financial advisor. So you go hunting for a unicorn: the one advisor who'll finally get it. I did the same thing after my first IPO watched my net worth jump to $3.3 million. Every firm came back with the same cookie-cutter pitch and the same 1% fee.Here's what took me years to understand: if you're between $1 and $30 million, the problem was never your advisor. You're stuck in a place the industry simply isn't built to serve — and chasing a better advisor keeps you there.The ultra-wealthy solved this over a century ago. They don't have a portfolio. They run their wealth like a business. In this video, I'll show you how to build a scaled-down version for yourself — the same structure, made cost-effective and actually implementable for high earners.This is the shift from money maker to money manager. Let's keep building.
About Managing Tech Millions
Welcome to Managing Tech Millions!http://www.managingtechmillions.com/This is the podcast where your tech-driven success meets innovative wealth strategies.Hosted by Christopher Nelson—3x IPO tech executive and private equity expert—this show dives deep into how to protect, grow, and transform your hard-earned millions into a legacy.From private equity and real estate to maximizing equity compensation, we break down the strategies used by the ultra-wealthy to help you take control of your financial future. Whether managing your first exit, equity tranche or scaling toward lasting financial independence, this is your blueprint for building wealth like a pro. Tune in, take action, and make your millions work harder than you do.
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