About
Nicholas Crown
Nicholas Crown is a financial advisor and content creator focused on the intersection of personal fulfillment and money. He is the founder, CEO, and Senior Advisor of Revise, a registered investment advisory firm.
Before launching Revise, Nicholas spent nearly a decade in fixed income arbitrage, serving as Director of Futures Relative Value at UBS and beginning his career on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a pit clerk in crude oil and natural gas futures.
A serial entrepreneur, Nicholas has also built digital platforms and media ventures that have been featured in Entrepreneur, Inc., MarketWatch, and Forbes for his perspective on startups, global finance, and the creator economy.
He 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.
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In 2022, Nicholas founded the institutional-grade, financial advisory, Revise.​
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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 Using UBS's in-house development team and a strategic partnership with an outdated trading platform, Nicholas built a co-located, fiber-optic spread trading business from the ground up.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.