240-From the Mail Room to CEO of a Trading Company: Interview with Don Montanaro, CEO of TradeKing (Live Show from #FinCon15!)

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 20 September 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

I'm here at #FinCon15 in Charlotte, NC this week and I had the privelege of interviewing Don Montanaro, the CEO (and co-founder) of TradeKing!

We recorded this episode live on the #FinCon15 podcasting stage on September 18, 2015.

We cover the details of:

Don's career progression from the mail room to CEO
What makes a difference in how quickly an employee gets promoted
How the securities market works
And way more!

Enjoy!

Joshua

TradeKing's website: http://tradeking.com
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Live from the Trade King putcasting stage at FinCon 2015, I've got the CEO himself.
0:08.1	Mr. Don, it's time for radical personal finance.
0:13.0	finance. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host and today we have Don with us. Welcome Don.
0:33.4	Hi I'm Don Montero CEO Trade King really excited to be on the show Joshua. Thanks
0:38.9	for having me. So I'm going to rib you about your personal life. I'm going to grill you on your company we're going
0:44.4	to solve all the problems of the financial world today sit back relax here we go
0:48.5	what are we going to start by a big thank you not Not only are we here on the
1:04.5	Trade King stage, you're a major sponsor here of FinCon. I also think I ate about
1:10.9	three pounds of your pork last night at the big giant party that you
1:16.3	guys hosted.
1:17.4	You wound up, you planned a party for, you said 400 people and you had 600 people show up.
1:21.3	Yeah.
1:22.3	So, yeah, that's a good thing except when you're trying to get everybody. 600 people show up? Yeah. So.
1:23.0	That's a good thing except when you're trying to get everybody fed really quickly.
1:26.0	Yeah, it was a bit of a line, but how many pigs did the barbecue people wind up killing for the events?
1:31.0	We had two pigs that were north of 250 pounds and we had 400 or 500 chickens.
1:37.0	I think that was pretty good.
1:39.0	The vegetarians are crying.
1:40.8	That's rather unfortunate.
1:41.8	And that's not mentioning the mountain of pork rinds, etc.
1:45.0	It was a fun time.
1:46.0	We're so excited to have FinCon here in Charlotte and have Charlotte recognized as the Financial Services Innovation Hub that I really think it is for the East Coast.
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