[2][3] While Lindzon was in high school, his parents divorced and his mother trusted him to manage their money.

[4] The first stock he purchased was Clearly Canadian and the loss from that trade impacted his philosophy of defensive money management and his own characterization of risk.

[4] Lindzon met his future wife, Ellen, through a blind date in Phoenix, Arizona and they were married on May 7, 1994.

[9] His brokerage firm endured some financial hardships in 2002 due to his partner's "thievery and fraud".

As the podcast was not generating the anticipated revenue, despite the popularity of the show, it appeared that CBS would no longer provide on-going funding.

[14][15] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated a temporary ban on short selling on 799 financial stocks from September 19, 2008 until October 2, 2008 in an effort to slow the bear market.

"[17] An assessment of the effect of the temporary ban on short-selling in the United States and other countries in the wake of the financial crisis showed that it had only "little impact" on the movements of stocks, with stock prices moving in the same way as they would have moved anyhow, but the ban reduced volume and liquidity.

[21] The idea for the company came from a 2008 blog post where Lindzon suggested that Twitter would be great for stocks and markets.

"[29] Lindzon coauthored the book The StockTwits Edge: 40 Actionable Trade Set-Ups from Real Market Pros with Philip Pearlman and Ivaylo Ivanhoff to assist new users with getting the most out of the service.

[34] Fifty percent of the company's revenue comes from financial data sold to clients including Bloomberg L.P. and Google.

[36] Lindzon is an angel investor and the managing partner for holding company Social Leverage.

InternMatch's mission is to "Help students find and explore great internships with a focus on leading technology companies and non-profits."

[49] UsingMiles is a Techstars graduate startup that aims to make it easier for travelers to aggregate their loyalty program rewards in one place.

[51] BillGuard watches and alerts users when credit card hidden fees, scams or billing errors are present in their accounts.

[54] Lindzon's interest in making data available lead to his support of Plexus Engine, doing business as Little Bird.

[56] Lindzon has been involved in funding many other start-ups including but not limited to: Foodzie, Life360, Simply Measured, Clarity, Lucky Sort, Seamless Receipts, Scopely, Colingo, Unbounce, LaunchRock, SendHub, Retrofit, Betable, Dekko, YieldBot, Embedly, New Hive, Buddy Media, Videolicious, Laffster, YCharts, Fanium, BlogTalkRadio, StationCreator, Skyscraper, TubeMogul, MyTrade, MaxMyInterest, Zentact.

[40] In 2013, Lindzon presented at AMP Capital’s Amplify Festival for angel investors in Australia.