Khe Hy, The Wall Street Guru Turned Oprah For Millennials Says Stop Networking
Founder, RadReads
Khe Hy is the founder of RadReads and a founding editor at Quartz at Work. He was one of the youngest Managing Directors at BlackRock where he oversaw the New York Research Team.
“Play the long game. Short-termism prevents your best ideas from compounding.”
Khe Hyk is the Founder, RadReads
Khe Hy is the founder of RadReads and a founding editor at Quartz at Work. Quartz at Work is a publication focused on being a better manager, building your career, and navigating the modern workplace and RadReads is a community of 20,000 professionals seeking to reexamine their relationship to money, ambition, and ultimately themselves. Khe hosts two podcasts Rad Awakenings and FWD: Thinking and has been called Oprah for Millennials, featured on CNN, and known as The Wall Street Guru by Bloomberg. Khe is also a Money Coach and keynote speaker on the relationship between money, careers, and happiness.
Khe spent the first fifteen years of his career in the financial services industry researching hedge fund investments. He was one of the youngest Managing Directors at BlackRock where he oversaw the New York Research Team. Khe graduated from Yale with a BS in Computer Science and recently moved to Manhattan Beach with his wife (Lisa) and daughters (Soriya and Amelie).
Why do you do what you do?
I’m passionate about helping others see the possibility in their lives when they spend time understanding their deeper fears and motivations.
What are you trying to change in your industry and why?
Every day we’re pulled into zero-sum games, where there are perceived winners and losers. I want to convince professionals that we’re surrounded by positive-sum games. In essence, a shift from scarcity to abundance.
What got you into your line of work?
After nearly 15 years on Wall Street, I felt a “pebble in my shoe.” Uncomfortable enough to feel agitated, but not painful enough to stop walking. Thankfully, some great teachers opened my eyes to the possibilities outside of the “rat race” so I dove right in!
What is the hardest part of being a working professional?
Time management. As a solopreneur, I’ve got 50 ideas each day and capacity for (at best) 2. Each day is a difficult triage.
What are 5 tips you would like to share?
- Don’t network, elevate the people around you with generosity and help.
- Look for positive-sum (i.e. win-win) situations; they’re everywhere.
- Play the long game. Short-termism prevents your best ideas from compounding.
- Tend to your inner self. Some of our worst moments arise when we fail to understand ourselves
- Strive for action. Big changes happen with small, incremental steps.
