Betterment: Jon Stein

Hey, it's Guy here, and I want to let you know that we still have a few tickets left for our upcoming live show in Los Angeles on December 5th. I'll be sitting down with Michael Dubin, he's the co-founder of Dollars Shave Club, which he turned into a billion dollar brand in just five years. Now if you haven't been to a live show, they're super fun and it's a great chance to meet other listeners and builders just like you. So if you're in the LA area on December 5th, please come by and say hi. Our live show is supported by American Express, and to get your tickets, go to NPRPres. dot org and I hope to see you there. I've been up all night. I knew that I would have to deliver this amazing

speech if I wanted betterment to be successful. And this is my baby. This is the thing that I've been working on for the last three years. And I had a Blackberry at the time and the Blackberry timestamps when you leave these notes. And I woke up in the morning and I saw every thirty minutes, all night long, I had been awake and like writing down edits to my presentation. It was probably the most nerve wracking day of of my life. Yeah. From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. I'm Guy Raz and on today's show how John Stein decided just after the two thousand eight financial crash to launch what else an online investment company.

And now we grew it into a business that manages more than 10 billion dollars. Okay, let's face it, retirement planning is not simple. There are four o one Ks and Roth IRAs and SEP IRAs and CDs and ETFs and mutual funds and bonds and individual stocks and Well, a million different ways to save and invest, and of course, lose your money. And John Stein He understood this problem.

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