“Crypto cycles are all about adding positions at the long-term uptrend when everyone is at max fear and disgust, followed by boredom.”
Representing a new class of finance influencers, Raoul Pal is an entrepreneur, crypto proponent, investment strategist, economic historian, writer and traveler — all rolled into one effervescent personality with a massive online following. Shuffling between these roles with relative ease, Pal is known as much for his honest investment advice as for his accurate predictions about major trends in the economic and financial realm. His understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic would alter world economies has helped expand his Twitter outreach to nearly 1 million, with Pal keeping them engaged with both personal anecdotes and financial discourses.
Born to an Indian father and a Dutch mother, Pal has had many stints in financial roles at firms such as Dow Jones Telerate, James Capel & Co, NatWest Markets, Goldman Sachs and GLG’s Global Macro Fund before quitting corporate banking in 2004 to start the Global Macro Investor (GMI) newsletter. An original and independent research publication, GMI maintains a very restricted paid membership that provides economic and market analysis, along with trade recommendations, consultancy advice, risk analysis and even wealth management.
Pal co-founded Real Vision as an investment streaming platform in 2014 and currently serves as its CEO. Real Vision provides its members direct access to real-world strategies and insights of renowned investors, economists and entrepreneurs, morphing Pal’s own personal style in its celebrated videos, podcasts, courses and events. Having begun his entrepreneurial journey in his mid-30s, Pal has centered his ventures around the central theme of delivering fresh perspectives on the future of finance and remains one of the biggest influencers in the crypto and financial journalism worlds.
Pal spent 2022 giving his followers deeper insights into the potential of digital asset markets, how the macro landscape has been changing, and the wealth of opportunities that mainstream crypto adoption could unlock in the near future. Through his flagship interview series, Raoul Pal Adventures in Crypto, Pal has been stringing together his thoughts and narratives from leading experts within the cryptocurrency ecosystem to assuage investors who have battled through a volatile 2022.
In fact, Pal can be credited with being one of the few influencers who have tempered their optimistic outlook with pragmatism and real-world skepticism, endearing him further to his legion of supporters. In addition to his Twitter following, Pal’s Real Vision has more than 300,000 paid subscribers who utilize the long-format content to understand investing across different markets and asset classes. Pal is often credited with taking a markedly different approach than that employed by mainstream financial media companies to provide a more intuitive explanation of the complex world of finance, business and the global economy at large.
Pal remains extremely confident about the prospects of Bitcoin and other robust cryptocurrencies, believing that institutional and retail investor adoption will define how they are valued in the future. He recommends adopting a value-based investing approach toward cryptocurrencies, while also not being particularly enthused by passive income avenues like staking within the crypto ecosystem.
Pal continues to remain bullish on crypto assets, especially considering that they have been the best-performing asset class since 2018, and advises his followers to invest in promising projects rather than getting into speculative bets. As the market capitalization of cryptocurrency tokens stabilizes and blockchain projects rapidly increase the number of use cases, Pal believes that it would attract even greater participation from traditional investors, auguring well for crypto markets in 2023 and beyond.
