My First Million
#79 with Alexa von Tobel - From Dropping Out of Business School to a $375M Exit
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) interview Alexa von Tobel (@alexavontobel), founder and former CEO of LearnVest, a fintech company that sold to Northwestern Mutual for $375M five years after launch. Today's topic include: Alexa talks about her background (), Alexa talks about studying happiness at Harvard (), Alexa breaks down the business plan and evolution of LearnVest (), Alexa describes what it was like to be a classmate at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and the advent of Facebook (), Sam asks Alexa, “why sell the business?” (), Alexa explains the strategy behind her VC firm, Inspired Capital, and what’s interesting to her today (), Shaan asks Alexa to explain her contrarian views about the future of work (), Alexa explains how her roots give her an advantage in the fintech space (), Sam asks Alexa what a “self-driving wallet” is (), Shaan talks with Alexa about crypto projects that are streaming money (), Alexa explains how friction is making it more difficult for people to grow their wealth ().
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