Gordy
Founder of REWD — Retire Early with Dividends
Gordy is a dividend investor building toward early retirement — and REWD is the tool he wished existed while doing it. What started as a personal dividend tracker grew into a platform: automatic sync across 100+ brokerages, forward income projections built from real dividend growth rates, a research library covering 2,500+ US dividend payers, and 20+ FIRE calculators.
The strategy behind the writing here is the same one running in his own portfolio: quality dividend growers bought steadily, DRIP while accumulating, payout-ratio discipline over yield-chasing, and a plan measured in projected income — not portfolio value.
He documents the journey publicly on the Retire Early with Dividends YouTube channel and podcast, and hangs out with readers in the REWD Discord.
Every article follows the site's editorial guidelines: data over opinions, disclosed methodology, and no content written to sell you a specific stock. Nothing on this site is financial advice.
Start here
- How to Live Off Dividends — the flagship guide
- Living Off Dividends Calculator — find your number
- We Analyzed 2,500 Dividend Stocks — original payout-ratio research
- The REWD dividend tracker — what all of this was built around