
Hamid Salehi
Founder of Arcanomy
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo
MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Money is never just math.
It's psychology, identity, fear, ambition, and a hundred quiet habits most people never examine. Yet most financial advice still treats money like a spreadsheet problem: optimize this, automate that, follow the formula, and everything will work. When it doesn't, people blame themselves.
I built Arcanomy because I think the problem is the advice, not the person.
Arcanomy exists to close the gap between how money is usually explained and how people actually make decisions. It's a place for rigorous thinking about wealth, grounded not just in numbers, but in behavior, incentives, and real life.
My background spans more than 18 years across engineering, financial analysis, product leadership, and strategy. I've worked across data center infrastructure, fintech, semiconductors, automotive technology, and startups, and I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
That combination shapes everything here: analytical when it needs to be, practical when it matters, and honest about the forces that actually drive financial behavior.
Arcanomy is not built on hacks, guru culture, or empty motivation. It's built for people who want to think more clearly, understand money more deeply, and build wealth with less noise and more truth.