Adam Nash is the founder and CEO of Daffy, a donor-advised fund platform that's democratizing charitable giving for everyday Americans. Previously, he served as CEO of Wealthfront, where he helped grow the robo-advisor from $80 million to over $80 billion in assets under management. Before that, he held senior product roles at LinkedIn, eBay, and Apple.

What you'll learn:

1. How donor-advised funds represent a $557 billion market that most people have never heard of
2. Wealthfront's counterintuitive strategy for building trust by targeting tech workers first
3. Why subscription business models create better customer relationships than transactional ones
4. The three key metrics that subscription businesses should obsess over: acquisition, retention, and churn
5. How to design organic network effects that make customers want to share your product
6. Why emotional connection is the hidden driver behind every successful scaled product
7. The importance of finding the "humanity underneath" when building financial products
8. How to turn a financial task into something people genuinely care about
9. The behavioral finance insight that separates "how much to give" from "who to give to"
10. Why putting money aside for charity (even without knowing the recipient) is the most important first step
11. The trust-building power of getting one prestigious customer in B2B sales
12. How geographic restrictions can actually help remote companies maintain culture and reduce fraud risk

In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Introduction to Adam Nash and Daffy

(04:19) What donor-advised funds are and why they matter

(06:32) How Daffy is democratizing charitable giving

(12:23) The emotional connection behind successful products

(15:05) Wealthfront's journey from $80M to $80B

(21:14) The trust-building strategy that worked for fintech

(28:12) Subscription vs. transactional business models

(34:08) Designing organic network effects

(38:20) Adam's giving philosophy and approach

(44:18) The remote work fraud problem and trust issues

(52:00) Building ownership culture in startups