Episode 41: Acorns co-founder Noah Kerner

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Out of Office, Rich and Gianni talk to Acorns co-founder Noah Kerner, who has extensive experience in founding and growing start-ups. This episode will cover Noah's career trajectory, including how he and his team have grown Acorns including throughout the challenges of the last year. Previous guests / episodes in line with the overall ethos of this episode include Dan Fleyshman(founder, Elevator Studio), Gary Vaynerchuk, & Dave Grutman (Groot Hospitality), all of whom built their businesses as start ups.

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0:53.5	What's up, everybody, and welcome to another boardroom out of office podcast. This is podcast number 41. And as always, with my right-hand man, Gianni, what's up? What's up? What's up, bro? So we got a friend of mine today. I know I say this every week, but this one's a friend for life, man. We got my boy Noah
1:11.5	Kerner. And you know what? I'm going to read this intro. I'm going to do something out of the
1:15.5	ordinary for our podcast. And I'm going to read a prepared intro just because I don't want to
1:21.4	butcher Noah Kerner, my childhood friend's introduction. So here we go. You ready, G? Yep.
1:27.6	Today we've got four-time entrepreneur and CEO of Acorns, Noah Kerner. Before Acorns, Noah
1:35.7	started out in the music scene as a DJ to Jennifer Lopez. He then co-authored Chasing
1:42.0	Cool, a book with former CEO of Barneys, and was an advisor and
1:45.8	investor in a variety of fast-growing startups, including WeWork. Noah is one of the first
1:50.9	Fintech CEOs to come from the outside of the industry and go into finance, not to make money,
1:56.0	but to help others make money. Today, Acorns is the largest subscription service and consumer
2:00.8	money with over
2:01.5	nine million users and enables everyday Americans to save and invest every day. Acorns also has a
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