Berman: WorkMoney scaled to nine million SMS members in five years
Jeff Berman · How to get better at money (with Carrie Joy Grimes) | Masters of Scale · May 29, 2026 · at 3:19
Host Jeff Berman discusses the rapid growth and engagement model of Carrie Joy Grimes's financial empowerment nonprofit WorkMoney.
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“Zero to nine million in, in five years basically is a pretty impressive number, and these are people who have a text relationship, an SMS relationship with not just people like nine million visitors to a website or, you know, an Instagram or something”
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