Wealthfront
13 statements across 6 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2016 by Harry Stebbings · said 122 times in 26 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (64), Jason Lemkin (18), Andy Johns (9), Adam Nash (8), Andy Rachleff (4), Rory O'Driscoll (3), Matt Lerner (2), Jason Calacanis (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 1 episode
2022 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
- 20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- 20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
- 20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- 20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- 20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 69 mentions in 7 episodes 10 per episode
- 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- 20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- 20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- 20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- 20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- 20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Wealthfront, oldest first
Jun 20, 2016 positive
Jun 20, 2016 negative
Rachleff: Charles Schwab's automated service cannot match Wealthfront on net returns
“Great example of that is Charles Schwab. They introduced a service last year that's the equivalent to what we introduced in It is in no way comparable on a net-of-fee, after-tax, risk-adjusted basis to what our service has evolved to today.”
Jun 20, 2016 bullish
Aug 12, 2016
Aug 12, 2016 bullish
Aug 12, 2016 bullish
Automated financial advice will see major adoption by 2021, predicts Adam Nash
“Right now, people are fairly skeptical about this idea that we can move beyond automating investment and move to automating financial advice. But I think within the next three to five years, you're going to see phenomenal improvements in detailed, personalized…”
Aug 12, 2016 bullish
Mar 10, 2017 bullish
Mar 10, 2017 positive
Nov 17, 2021
Wealthfront Shut Down Its Growth Team to Focus on New Products
“And so eventually what we did at the Wealthfront in the early days of Wealthfront is I was the VP of growth, but at one point we said, you know what, the best thing for our business at this point is to shut down growth. And in its wake, Replace it with another…”
Dec 4, 2025 bullish
O'Driscoll: Wealthfront Will Become a Compounding Machine Like Charles Schwab
“Over the next 10 or 15 years, that generation is going to get rich. They're going to get rich with Wealthfront. They're going to keep their money there. And it's going to be a compounding machine, just like Charlie Schwab was a compounding machine”
Jan 29, 2026 bullish
O'Driscoll: Wealthfront will compound out long term, but lacks short-term liquidity
“I think they will compound out. I actually like the company and have a mental note here to go check on it and see the valuation and maybe buy some, but you, Jason is right. It, it's not going to be a liquidity event in the short term because there's, it's not …”