After getting a Master’s degree in computer science at the University of Michigan, I turned down a job offer from Microsoft. Instead, I started an internet company called RentLinx, which is an advertising network for rental properties. 

As my company grew, I was always the lowest paid employee and never took home more than $36,000 per year. On that salary, by the age of 34 I had grown my net worth (not counting the value of the business) to over $100,000 while living in San Diego. I well on my way to millionaire status by (traditional) retirement age.

At this time I sold my company to AppFolio for $5 million. After taxes, my share came out to about $2 million. I spent the next two years working for AppFolio and then left on very good terms. With the amount of money I had invested, I’d be able to live off of the growth without ever having to work again.

So at age 36 I was officially retired! I spent the next year traveling and staying at home playing StarCraft II. I was feeling unfulfilled and had a bit of an existential crisis.

So in 2019 I started a passion project on Instagram to share daily personal finance tips. And that’s when Personal Finance Club was born. It pumped me up every day to talk about Roth IRAs and index funds and help people change the course of their financial future.

I kept getting the same questions, so during the height of the pandemic, I was bored and created an online course on how to build wealth by investing in index funds. And in the first week I had $100,000 worth of sales. That’s when I realized that I had accidentally started a business.