Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom

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In episode 618, join Rob Walling as he chats with Sam Dogen, the founder of Financial Samurai, which is one of the longest-running and most popular personal finance blogs. Over the last 13 years, Sam has personally written over 2,500 essays along with a Wall Street Journal Bestselling book. We talk about achieving financial freedom, money mindsets, and relentless execution.

Topics we cover: 
  • 3:12- The 4% Rule 
  • 4:40- Sam’s alternative approach to the 4% Rule 
  • 7:25- The FIRE Movement 
  • 10:16- How to navigate the US health insurance system as an early retiree 
  • 12:10- Sam’s relentless execution when it comes to running Financial Samurai 
  • 17:40- How Sam learned about personal finance 
  • 18:47- How Sam negotiated a severance package despite quitting his investment banking job 
  • 22:47- Why he runs Financial Samurai as a true lifestyle business 
  • 26:07- Would Sam sell Financial Samurai for $20 million? 
  • 27:35- The premise of Sam’s new book 
  • 28:46- Sam’s mental model for allocating financial assets to generate passive income 
    • Links from the Show:
    • Sam Dogen (@financialsamura) I Twitter
    • Financial Samurai  
    • Buy This, Not That  
    • TropicalMBA 
    • MicroConf Europe 
    • Applications for TinySeed’s Fall 2022 SaaS Accelerators Will Open September 12th
    • MicroConf Youtube Channel 

      • If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you.

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