MI208: The Finance Super App w/ Brian Barnes
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:03.0 | I was super fortunate for the early team, many of which are still with the company. |
| 0:07.0 | Like, they bring on additional great people. |
| 0:10.0 | Those great people bring on additional great people. |
| 0:12.0 | And so it really is the spreading network effects of the individuals that you bring on at the company, |
| 0:17.0 | that the company is nothing more than the individuals at it working on a shared problem. |
| 0:24.3 | On today's episode, I'm joined by M1 Finance founder and CEO Brian Barnes. |
| 0:30.4 | M1 Finance is a personal finance platform that offers the best of digital investing, borrowing, and banking. |
| 0:37.4 | After starting just seven years ago |
| 0:39.2 | in 2015, over half a million people use M1, and they manage over $6 billion. During this episode, |
| 0:47.4 | Brian and I chat about what led him to starting M1 finance and what sets them apart from |
| 0:52.4 | industry titans like Vanguard and Fidelity, how M1 Finance is what sets them apart from industry titans like Vanguard and Fidelity. |
| 0:55.6 | How M1 Finance is providing features to retail investors that are traditionally only provided |
| 1:00.8 | to the ultra wealthy. |
| 1:02.6 | How you can borrow against your investment account on M1. |
| 1:06.1 | How cryptocurrencies play into their vision. |
| 1:08.9 | How Brian envisions the fintech landscape evolving over time, |
| 1:12.9 | Brian's biggest lessons in starting and scaling a company to 300 employees, and so much more. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm personally a user of M1 and a big fan of their platform. |
| 1:22.7 | Even if you're not interested in switching investment platforms, I can promise you this will be a |
| 1:27.4 | very interesting |
| 1:28.1 | conversation as we chat about the future of fintech, as well as what it takes to start and grow |
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