#14 Improve Your Financial Education with Sahil Bloom

Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) received an M.A. in Public Policy and a B.A. in Economics and Sociology from Stanford University where he also played as a professional baseball player. After university, Sahil started a career in finance and is now the Vice President of Altamont Capital Partners. Sahil’s Twitter account recently blew up because of his educational threads on various finance concepts that deserve frequent retweets from industry veterans.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:02 How Sahil got Into Storytelling
• 2:31 Sahil's Background
• 3:47 The Current Issue With Financial Education
• 10:33 Why Sahil Is Teaching Financial Education
• 13:37 The Mindset Benefits of a Sports Upbringing
• 15:39 Lessons from Sahil's Failures
• 21:16 Traits of Successful People: Nature or Nurture?
• 24:12 What Sahil is Doing Professionally
• 26:36 Sahil on Crypto
• 34:08 Differences Between Managing Personal & Company Portfolio
• 38:13 How to Invest in Stocks
• 41:28 Sahil on Trading & Investing
• 46:55 The Best Way to Expand Your Knowledge
• 48:09 Sahil's Top 3 Books for Success
• 52:44 Sahil's Plans for Twitter