Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a board member of Markel Group, and one of the most widely read writers on the psychology of money working today. He built his reputation over a decade as a columnist and senior analyst at The Motley Fool and as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, earning two Best in Business Awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, a New York Times Sidney Award, and two finalist nods for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism along the way. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Southern California and lives in Seattle with his family.

In 2020 he distilled that decade of financial journalism into The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, a book that argued financial success has far less to do with intelligence or technical skill than with behavior, patience, and perspective. It became a global word-of-mouth phenomenon, and by his own count his books have since sold more than 12 million copies in over 60 languages. He followed it in 2023 with the instant New York Times bestseller Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, twenty-four short stories about the behaviors — envy, overconfidence, the pull of a good story — that repeat across markets and history no matter the era.

In October 2025 he published his third book, The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life, which he has described as the one that affected him most personally. Where his earlier work focused on building wealth, this one turns to a subject he found strangely under-covered: how to actually use money well, without budgets or one-size-fits-all formulas, to build a genuinely richer life.

Beyond his books, Morgan is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, a venture firm investing across consumer, climate, and technology companies, and he sits on the board of Markel Group. He hosts his own ongoing show, and in the years since his breakout book he has remained a regular guest across the top interview and business podcasts, most recently discussing the ideas in The Art of Spending Money.