About
Nicholas Crown
Nicholas Crown is a serial entrepreneur and macro content creator focused on the intersection of personal fulfillment and money. Currently, he is the founder of the specialist financial planning firm, Revise.
Before going digital, Nicholas was a fixed income arbitrage trader at UBS as Director of Futures Relative Value. Nicholas began his career as a pit clerk in crude oil and natural gas futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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He's been featured in Entrepreneur, Inc., MarketWatch, and Forbes for his perspective on startups, global finance, and the creator economy.
Nicholas is a graduate of Cornell University and lives in Chicago.
"Focused on making an impact with institutional-grade financial education in a digestible form."
Nicholas is well-known for his viral social media series entitled "Rich vs Really Rich" which emphasizes how wealth creation starts with humility, kindness, and open-mindedness. He is the author of "Really Rich", published by Hachette Go in 2024.
In 2022, Nicholas founded the fastest-growing financial and portfolio planning firm in the United States, Revise.​
Nicholas started his career as a pit clerk in the crude oil trading ring at the New York Mercantile Exchange in 2005, where he learned from the legendary oil trader, Mark Fisher. He later joined Barclays Capital on their repo trading desk in London as an analyst, later relocating to New York to switch to the rapidly growing basis trading desk.​In 2011, he was recruited to build a greenfield basis trading desk at the Swiss investment bank, UBS, in Stamford, CT, and later, New York. Using UBS's in-house development team and a strategic partnership with an outdated trading platform, Nicholas built a co-located, fiber-optic spread trading business from the ground up. He left Wall Street in 2014 to build his first business.​
Outside of work, Nicholas is an award-winning guitarist and auto sports enthusiast.​ Nicholas is a graduate of Cornell University, cum laude. He lives in Chicago.
