From Science to Money: Why I Created This Newsletter for PhDs Like You

No matter your field — whether you're working with CRISPRs or strings theory — your first investment to become financially independent must be to learn the language of money.

Just like you learn to formulate hypotheses before doing research, understanding how money works is the essential first step before any financial breakthrough.

I didn’t realize this truth until my very first lecture of the PhD.

Instead of diving into a scientific research paper — that very first day we analyzed a Nature communication letter about a venture capital deal.

And the man leading that lecture? He wasn’t just any professor, but a biotech legend. Not only he was the director of our PhD program, but founder of multiple successful biotech companies across the U.S. and Latin America and holder of major vaccine patents. The guy really understood the language of money.

He walked us through that letter like it was a molecular pathway — connecting capital to research, startups to impact.

But as soon as he started talking money language, we drifted.

It doesn't take a genius to comprehend we were clueless about finances. After every question he asked, silence followed.

As he was leaving the classroom at the end of the lecture, he stopped dead-serious and asked:

Silence.

And there we were. The future scientists of the world. The 'smart brains'. Not being able to answer a basic question about the financial world we were walking into.

That moment didn’t embarrass me. It woke me up.

He wasn’t mocking us. He was warning us:

That first lecture flipped a switch in me.

From that day forward, I made it my mission to understand money — how it moves, how it grows, and how to make it work for me, not the other way around.

Fast forward 15 years, and here I am — writing to you, a fellow scientist, to share what I’ve learned on this journey towards financial independence. Not with fancy jargon, but with clarity and a promise: To tell you what worked for me— and just as importantly, what didn’t.

And hopefully, to grow our knowledge together, from your and other's point of view and experiences.

Juts remember this:

It's not about becoming a finance expert. It’s about refusing to stay financially ignorant.

It’s about understanding enough to stop depending entirely on the system— and understanding how to build wealth from the ground up.

Let’s be honest: if you can decode scientific literature — then yes, you can figure out how to build financial independence too.

Use this newsletter as your guide. Question it. Share it with every curious mind in a lab coat who’s ready to stop surviving and start building. See you soon, and

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