This week Francis is joined by award winning financial reporter, Phil Rosen. Last year Phil left his role as Senior Markets Reporter at Business Insider to pursue his independent newsletter-first media company, Opening Bell Daily. His flagship newsletter Opening Bell Daily, now has over 190k subscribers within its first year of operation.

Opening Bell Daily: https://www.openingbelldailynews.com

Phil's X: https://x.com/philrosenn

00:00 Introducing Phil Rosen and Opening Bell Daily

02:00 Building the foundation of a successful writer

05:27 Independent journalism's rise over established media

13:49 Navigating the business side of journalism

18:22 The freedom of building a new business model

21:40 Phil's ambitions to NOT scale the business

24:32 The death of objectivity in journalism

30:48 The untapped market for valuable growth

33:40 Overcoming the fear of posting video

39:30 Paywalls: The necessary evils of the media business

44:36 Advice for aspiring writers and creators