Meet the Man with All the Hacks! Chris Hutchins
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Life hacker, optimizer, product director at Wealthfront... he wears many hats, but his passion is the same -- upgrading life without spending a fortune! In today's episode, Jesse chats with Chris Hutchins, who shares a handful of his seemingly endless number of life hacks. Whether it's saving money on travel, getting a few more dollars out of your car lease, or negotiating for coupons, Chris has a hack for just about everything.
You can follow Chris and learn many more hacks on his podcast, All the Hacks:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello wine lovers, my name is Jesse Mekim and this is podcast number 524 wine |
| 0:09.2 | ever. |
| 0:10.2 | We teach you four rules to help you stop if you paycheck to paycheck. |
| 0:12.2 | Get out of debt and save more money today. |
| 0:14.5 | I bring to you another expert on the wine and podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | His name is Chris Hutchins. |
| 0:19.0 | He's a life hacker, a product builder, and he now has a podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | He is an optimizer and it let him to start hosting what he is now calling the all the |
| 0:28.7 | hacks podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | It's all the hacks.com where he shares his quest to upgrade his life without having |
| 0:33.8 | to spend a fortune. |
| 0:35.7 | So Chris was featured in a documentary on financial independence called plan with fire |
| 0:40.5 | and he worked as a director of product or he works, excuse me, as a director of product |
| 0:43.9 | at wealthfront. |
| 0:44.9 | He's focused on making products to help people build wealth through investing but all |
| 0:49.6 | automating, all making it easy. |
| 0:51.4 | He joined the company after his startup grove was acquired by wealthfront in 2016. |
| 0:56.4 | He's been an investor at Google Ventures. |
| 0:58.4 | He co-founded a startup called milk that was acquired by Google and he created an organization |
| 1:02.4 | called a laid off camp. |
| 1:03.9 | But today, we just talk about all the hacks. |
| 1:07.2 | So Chris jumps into maybe why you might not want to overdo it. |
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