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LearnVest: Alexa von Tobel
- ▶ 0:49 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how a traumatic experience in her childhood inspired Alexa Von Tobel to create LearnVest, a company that simplifies financial planning, and how she went on to sell it for a rumored quarter of a billion…
- ▶ 7:17 Alexa von Tobel Um, hence, and kind of, this is where some of the idea for LearnVest and kind of my, my own, like, entrepreneurial crusade was really born, which is, um, first of all, you know, as you 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Alexa von Tobel And the idea for LearnVest had already been kind of born in my head of, like, why don't we learn about money?
- ▶ 12:47 Guy Raz And, and that was the beginning of Learn Best? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Guy Raz So you leave business school, uh, and you, you moved to New York to start LearnVest.
- ▶ 19:35 Guy Raz So before Alexa could actually launch LearnVest, she of course needed to raise some of the money to do it.
- ▶ 23:43 Alexa von Tobel It was, it was, it was literally pitched as, like, for anybody who wants to get, like, their butt kicked about their wallet in, in a way that's, like, plain English and easy, go to learn best.
- ▶ 26:31 Alexa von Tobel And then on the, um, business to business side, we sold LearnBest at Work, and that was where really big companies started coming to us, and actually, it kind of shows you, like, the nimbleness of an entrepreneur.
- ▶ 34:37 Guy Raz Alexa Von Tobel, founder of LearnVest.