Chris Camillo
Chris Camillo is a renowned self-directed investor, celebrated for turning a $20,000 brokerage account into $60 million without following conventional investment strategies. He is the Co-Founder and former CEO of TickerTags, a social listening platform that allows investors to track real-time conversations around keywords tied to publicly traded securities and other investable assets. Chris is the author of “Laughing at Wall Street” and was featured in Jack Schwager’s Unknown Market Wizards as one of the world’s top-performing amateur investors. He is also the Founder of Dumb Money, a platform where he shares his unconventional investment strategies. Alongside Dave Hanson and Jordan McLain, Chris leverages insights from everyday life to uncover profitable investment opportunities, challenging the traditional belief that only Wall Street professionals can achieve market success.
Chris Camillo Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder
Academic History
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B.B.A., Finance
SOCIAL ARBITRAGE
Chris pioneered Social Arbitrage, a unique investment strategy that leverages social media data to identify early trends and consumer behavior before they become mainstream.
By analyzing platforms like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, he uncovers actionable insights hidden in everyday life.
In 2006, Chris applied this approach to his portfolio, achieving 95% annualized returns over a 10-year period, demonstrating the power of social-driven market insights.
TICKERTAGS
Chris co-founded TickerTags, a social listening and analytics platform that famously predicted the 2016 Brexit outcome.
The platform tracks Twitter, online news, product reviews, blogs, message boards, and social video comments, using sentiment analysis to detect early shifts in business dynamics.
In 2018, TickerTags was acquired by MScience, part of Jefferies Financial Group, further validating its market impact.
MARKET EXPERTISE
Beyond public market investing, Chris is an active early-stage investor, advisor, and operational executive.
He specializes in identifying game-changing trends in real life that influence real companies, a method he calls information arbitrage over Wall Street.
Notable exits include e-Rewards Research (Dynata), eCarList (DealerTrack/Cox Automotive), Order My Gear (Susquehanna Growth), TickerTags (Jefferies), and Fixd Repair (Angie’s List).
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
A recognized thought leader in contextual data analysis, Chris frequently speaks on the predictive power of social data in investment research.
He has been featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Business Week.