Inside The Platform Helping to Invest Like Substack & FinTwit's Top Researchers | Plutus

June 24, 2026

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Shoshank Sharanawala, founder of Plutus, spent years as a frustrated individual investor. He had money to manage, clear risk-reward preferences, and access to excellent independent research from Substack and FinTwit researchers he already followed. What he did not have was a way to actually invest in those researchers' portfolios without either click-trading complex global positions himself or handing his capital to a hedge fund with high fees, lockups, and opacity. That gap — between good research and practical, personalized execution — is the problem Plutus was built to solve.

The Problem with Existing Solutions

Sharanawala walked through the options available to someone like himself — a 38-year-old with savings to manage but no desire to be a full-time trader. Hedge funds charge 2 and 20, lock capital for six months or more, and are opaque. Index investing is a blunt instrument that does not account for individual risk-reward preferences. Walking into a traditional brokerage for financial advice felt like a non-starter for his generation. The common workaround — copy trading a public personality's portfolio or 13F filing — is incomplete. A 13F is delayed, a snapshot, excludes non-US securities, futures, shorts, and swaps. More fundamentally, copying someone else's portfolio does not answer the question: "What do I do with that? Like do I go and invest my entire wealth

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Introduction & The Core Problem** - Shoshank Sharanawala, founder of Plutus, joins Max Sweetie to discuss the new investment platform that lets users invest in portfolios built by independent research providers from Substack and FinTwit.
2 (04:29) **Why "Copy Trading" is Not the Answer** - Shoshank explains the fundamental difference between Plutus and simple copy trading.
3 (07:40) **The Importance of Risk/Reward Over Raw Performance** - The platform prioritizes holistic risk management over just tracking returns.
4 (14:57) **The Real Innovation: The Menu, Not Just Customization** - Max argues the true value is the curated selection of high-quality research providers, not just the ability to combine portfolios.
5 (21:58) **The Execution Nightmare Plutus Solves** - Shoshank details the immense operational complexity of trading these portfolios manually.
6 (25:21) **The Research Providers & Curation Strategy** - A list of the initial research partners and the philosophy behind the selective onboarding.
7 (28:24) **Who Uses Plutus? Individual vs. Professional Investors** - The client base is surprisingly diverse, including professional money managers.

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Show Notes

In this episode of Other People's Money, host Max Wiethe sits down with Shashank Chiranewala, founder of the new investment platform Plutus, to explore the future of independent research and portfolio management. Shashank explains why his platform is fundamentally different from the copy trading trend, emphasizing the importance of aligning model portfolios with an investor's unique risk-reward needs rather than blindly following a single strategy. They dive into the technical nightmares of executing global, active strategies on your own—like navigating foreign market rules and tracking errors—and how Plutus provides an automated, seamless execution solution for both individual and professional investors. Finally, they discuss why top independent researchers from Substack and FinTwit are choosing to list their portfolios on Plutus rather than launching traditional fund vehicles.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:37 The Broken Options
03:54 From Research to Investing
04:28 Why Not Copy Trading
07:56 SPY and Portfolio Fit
12:25 Building Multi Portfolio Strategies
14:58 Menu vs Tools Debate
20:34 Execution Is the Moat
25:17 Meet the Research Partners
28:18 Who Uses Plutus?
32:04 Creators and Regulation
36:26 Big Vision and Tokenization
38:42 Taxes and Compliance
44:43 How the Platform Works
46:32 Conclusion