#371: Ramit Sethi — Automating Finances, Negotiating Prenups, Disagreeing with Tim, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 145 minutes
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"Most of us should spend less time on most decisions and we should spend a lot more time on a few key decisions." — Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi (@ramit), author of the New York Times bestseller I Will Teach You To Be Rich, has become a financial guru to millions of readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties. He started his website, iwillteachyoutoberich.com, as a Stanford undergraduate in 2004, and he now hosts over a million readers per month on his blog, newsletter, and social media.
Ramit grew up in Sacramento, the son of Indian immigrant parents who taught him the art of negotiating -- his father once spent five days negotiating with a car dealer, only to walk away over a set of floor mats. He wasn't the smartest kid in his class, but he loved building systems, which ultimately earned him over $200,000 in scholarships, which he used to get bachelor's and master's degrees in technology and psychology at Stanford. His understanding of human behavior and money led to him creating innovative solutions in self development.
Ramit and his team of dozens of employees build premium digital products about personal finance, entrepreneurship, psychology, careers, and personal development for top performers. The IWT community includes one million monthly readers, 400,000 newsletter subscribers, and 35,000 premium customers.
He has written about personal finance for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and been interviewed on dozens of media outlets including NPR, ABC News, and CNBC, and popular podcasts like The Tim Ferriss Show.
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| 0:00.0 | optimal minimal |
| 0:02.0 | at this altitude i can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking |
| 0:06.3 | can i ask you a personal question? |
| 0:08.3 | now i just see an appropriate time |
| 0:10.5 | what if i did the opposite? |
| 0:12.0 | i must have a netty organism living to show a metal hint of sculling |
| 0:24.2 | this episode is brought to you by linkedin jobs |
| 0:27.3 | hiring can be hard |
| 0:28.8 | can be super expensive and painful if you get it wrong i've certainly had that |
| 0:33.2 | experience multiple times i'm not eager to repeat it so i try to do as much |
| 0:37.2 | vetting on the front end as possible one of the problems is that the best talent |
| 0:42.8 | very often already has a job so what do you do? well it's not as easy as just posting a |
| 0:49.0 | job board with more qualified candidates than ever you need a solution to help |
| 0:52.3 | you find the right people not just those who are desperate for jobs or |
| 0:55.5 | searching for jobs and linkedin jobs actually helps you to do that with more |
| 0:59.6 | than 500 million active members linkedin attracts people every day |
| 1:03.7 | who want to make connections with other careers and discover new job opportunities |
| 1:07.4 | also 90 percent of linkedin users are open to new opportunities but not |
| 1:11.7 | actively scanning job boards linkedin jobs gives you access to an entirely |
| 1:16.3 | different demographic a different profile than anywhere else |
| 1:20.7 | and they use knowledge of both hard and soft skills to match you with people |
| 1:24.6 | best fit the role that you post post a job today at linkedin dot com slash |
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