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Codie A. Sanchez

Left finance to buy laundromats, then taught others to do it

Austin, Texas

LinkedIn @codiesanchez

Codie Sanchez spent years in institutional finance, including roles at Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, State Street and First Trust, before co-founding Unconventional Acquisitions and building Contrarian Thinking, an advisory and investment company that helps owners buy and grow small businesses. Her visible days run on workshops, podcast episodes, speaking and a book launch, and her base appears to be Austin, Texas. What she seems to care about most is ownership, plain-spoken money advice and making hard choices, delivered with a dry, blunt humour. Her public feed shows almost nothing about her private life, so this picture is mostly professional.

How the agent read Codie

The agent only gets two sources: the public LinkedIn and the public Instagram. Here is what it looked at, in order, and what it noticed. Hover or click any evidence chip to see where it came from.

Step 1 of 9

Headline and About sectionLinkedIn
Experience entries 8 and 1, plus the middle of the arcLinkedIn
Education, honors, languages and skillsLinkedIn
Bio and linksInstagram
Posts 1 to 12 as a setInstagram
Locations, guests and what's absent from the sampleInstagram
Attached images: post 1, post 2, post 3 and the profile photoInstagram
Cross-checking LinkedIn against InstagramBoth profiles
Post dates and orderingInstagram
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First impression of Codie

Sources the agent read

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Codie A. Sanchez

Founder, Entrepreneur, Author | My new book Own Or Be Owned just dropped. If this channel or the book has made you more money, it would mean a lot if you left an honest review:

Austin, Texas, United States

About

On a mission to create financially free and free-thinking humans. I founded a advisory and investment company called Contrarian Thinking that helps owners buy and scale businesses. Our newsletter has over 1M+ weekly readers, here → contrarianthinking.biz/li Our community has taught 9,000+ members biz buying, biz growing, and doing deals. We value experience over degrees. Betting on yourself over building someone else's dream. Main Street over Wall Street. My mission is less suits, more boots. Meaning: we the people holding the power… and the purse strings. 🔗Join 1M+ others who get our free newsletter: contrarianthinking.biz/li 🔗YouTube: @CodieSanchezCT 🔗Instagram: @codiesanchez 🔗Twitter: @Codie_Sanchez 🔗Weekly business-buying newsletter Main Street Minute: contrarianthinking.biz/minute-li

Experience

Founder - Investor at Contrarian ThinkingDec 2019 – Present
Co-Founder at Unconventional AcquisitionsAug 2021 – Aug 2024
EEC Advisory Board Member at Entourage Effect CapitalMar 2021 – Mar 2022
Managing Director - Partner at Entourage Effect CapitalMay 2019 – Apr 2021
Head of Latin America Investments at First TrustMar 2014 – May 2019
Director Institutional Sales at State StreetJul 2011 – Mar 2014

Education

Georgetown University, Master of Business Administration - MBA
Arizona State University, Journalism and Political Science, Spanish, Public Relations

Skills

Leadership
Investments
Portfolio Management
ETFs
Financial Analysis
Asset Management
Fixed Income
Alternative Investments
Public Speaking
Executive Coaching
Investment Management
Equities
Análisis financiero
Entrepreneurship
Gestión de cartera de clientes

@codiesanchezverified

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3.4M followers2.5K posts

Owner, Contrarian Thinking @ctventurecap @getbizscout @bigdeal.podcast Helping you build & buy profitable businesses My bestselling books👇

What the agent found

Every item cites where it came from. Open the evidence on any card to see the quote and the source.

Needs

What Codie needs from a partner, inferred from both profiles.

Someone who can keep up with a work-first calendar
Inferred: her feed is mostly workshops, podcast episodes and book launches, so a partner who can roll with launch weeks and recording days without needing the schedule to slow down for them.
A partner who can take a blunt opinion without flinching
Inferred: her captions state things flatly and open with the uncomfortable part, so she probably values someone who answers in kind rather than hedging.
Someone who can match a dry joke
Inferred: she jokes at her own expense and in deadpan lines, so banter with a straight face is likely to land better than earnest enthusiasm.
A partner who discusses money without treating it as a pitch
Inferred: money and ownership are her core subject, so someone who can talk about pricing, risk and value as ordinary topics, rather than as a sales call, would likely suit her.

Hobbies

What Codie actually spends time doing.

Hosting workshops
She runs multi-day business workshops in Austin, promoting them directly to followers in her recent posts.
Podcasting
She records and promotes the Big Deal podcast, sending listeners to full episodes with guests such as Daymond John.
Public speaking
She gave a talk at Harvard about building businesses and ownership, and her LinkedIn activity includes a piece on giving a memorable talk.
Writing books
She wrote Own or Be Owned and is previewing excerpts to build interest in the book.

Interests

Topics and worlds Codie cares about.

Buying and growing small businesses
Her whole arc points toward owning existing companies, from her acquisition firm to the laundromat and car wash examples she cites.
Cannabis industry investing
She was a partner at one of the earlier growth-equity firms focused on the cannabis industry.
Latin American markets
She headed Latin America investments at First Trust and lists Latin America among her core skills.
ETFs and fund strategy
She spent early career years on ETF consulting and distribution, and her LinkedIn activity includes a piece on pension managers' views of ETFs.
Online reach and algorithms
She thinks about how platform algorithm changes affect audience reach and how creators can keep attention anyway.

Other qualities

Values, personality and style the agent picked up on, grouped by kind.

Humour

Dry, blunt humour
She makes deadpan, self-deprecating lines that land without much setup.

Communication

Says the hard thing directly
Her captions open with the blunt point and then make it useful, rather than softening it.

Ambition

Thinks in terms of self-bets and ownership
She frames career choices as betting on yourself rather than on someone else's plan.

Values

Credits the people who helped
She names the organisations and people who gave her a platform, rather than presenting success as solo.

Personality

Candid about how she got here
She says she never set out to be a creator and only wanted to explain ownership and money honestly.

Green flags

Credits the people who opened doors, by name
Makes the joke at her own expense
Turns a big number into a real question, like 'What's your actual why?'
Has actually changed careers rather than just describing it

Possible dealbreakers

Someone who hears every money conversation as a sales pitch
Someone who needs a partner to be a constant feature of a business-focused feed
Someone who finds a blunt opinion a personal attack

Conversation hooks

Ask about the Harvard talk in post 11 and which point from it she'd want a room of students to remember.
Ask what the Daymond John episode in post 6 taught her: a bank offered him a $1.3 billion credit line and he said no.
Ask whether 'Chose your hard.' in post 7 is advice she gives herself or advice she gives clients.
Ask what made her move from Vanguard's ETF work (experience 8) into owning businesses through Contrarian Thinking (experience 1).
Ask about the leaf blower in post 3 and whether fame has changed anything about an ordinary Tuesday.

Codie A. Sanchez

How the agent read Codie

What the agent found

Needs

Hobbies

Interests

Other qualities

Humour

Communication

Ambition

Values

Personality

Green flags

Possible dealbreakers

Conversation hooks

Ideal first date

Codie's dates

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Lifestyle

First impression