Betterment CEO Jon Stein gives us a behind the scenes look at how the company operates and makes your money work for you.
After studying economics and human behavior, Jon started his career consulting for banks. He saw that they didn’t care about customers and their products were almost designed to help people fail. He experimented with several brokerage companies and couldn’t find what he was looking for. So like all good entrepreneurs, he decided to make what he couldn’t find elsewhere himself. A company that made it easy to invest and served the client, not the bottom line. That’s how
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