Sam Dogen

Sam Dogen founded Financial Samurai in 2009 and is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom . A pioneer of today's financial independence movement, he previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, from which he retired at age thirty-four to focus on his writing. Dogen graduated from William & Mary and received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two...See more

Sam Dogen founded Financial Samurai in 2009 and is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom . A pioneer of today's financial independence movement, he previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, from which he retired at age thirty-four to focus on his writing. Dogen graduated from William & Mary and received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. In his free time, you can find him playing tennis, pickleball, or poker, or trying to hit line drives on the softball field. Keep in touch by subscribing to the free Financial Samurai Newsletter at financialsamurai.com/news and The Financial Samurai Podcast on Apple or Spotify at financialsamurai.com/apple and financialsamurai.com/spotify. See less