One of the fastest growing personal finance sites focused on investing, real estate, career development and early retirement. Financial Samurai was founded in 2009 during the middle of the financial crisis by a 13 year Wall Street veteran. Sam decided he finally had enough and engineered his layoff in 2012 to dedicate full-time on Financial Samurai. It's not so much how much you make but how much you keep. Financial Samurai helps readers achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later. Financial Samurai receives over 400,000 pageviews a month and is the leading personal finance blog on the web today. There is heavy amount of discussion in stock research and analysis because the author worked in Equities.