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by jfmatth 1567 days ago
Congrats on the website and good luck.

I'm not sure I agree that there isn't Financial Education out there? I've used Schwab for 20+ years (yes old guy here) and now TDAmeritrade and I can tell you, they are all about education.

Have fun building your idea

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Hi! Thank you so much, super appreciate the "congrats", woo! _enqueue rockets_

You are super right, there is 100% a lot of investment education out there. For my generation, no one I know (including myself) is going to go through static content/white pages with black text and just read that. Further when it's not contextual/inlined with the real financials it's hard to make that connection/memory commit.

Building on that, an insight we had here is that education needs to be provided when you need it. And most investors have no idea when it's a good time to learn a p/e ratio for example.

One thing we did in Stock Unlock, was put inlined education, everywhere, defining every term.

Given your experience in this space it would be an honor (seriously) to get your honest thoughts about how we are doing it. Daniel Pronk has written 200+ pages of custom education content which is embedded through 100s of interactable widgets throughout the site.

I hope you have a great day, the markets are pretty turbulent out there!