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Von Tobel: Good entrepreneurs do not make an exit strategy their goal
“I always say that good entrepreneurs it's not that you don't ever think about an exit strategy, but it's not your goal.”
LearnVest Raised Just Under $5 Million Led by Accel
“So we ended up taking, ah, just under five million dollars from Excel Venture Partners and a bunch of other really cool people and entrepreneurs threw in some money at that point.”
LearnVest Reached 10,000 Sign-Ups in Its First Month
“In that first month, we had about 10,000 people who had signed up.”
LearnVest Originated as a 75-Page Morgan Stanley Side Project
“I put together the 75 page-ish business plan that nobody read, but it was all my thoughts in one place on what this future LearnVest company, LearnVest stood for Learn, Earn, Invest.”
Von Tobel: No Personal Financial Planning Classes Existed in College
“When I went to college, and I started getting, you know, studying things I'm interested in, I ended up literally, like, thinking to myself, I just want to take, like, some financial planning classes. Like, how many credit cards should I have? And, you know, ho…”