Brian Feroldi grew up in Rhode Island as a born saver — the kind of kid who hoarded his lunch money candy rather than eating it, just to watch his collection grow. His dad was a CFO. His mom raised money for the ALS Association. Nobody sat him down and explained how investing worked. That part he had to figure out on his own.
A financial educator, YouTuber, and author of the book Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?, Brian joins Chris Hill to talk about the long road from money-illiterate college graduate to one of the most-followed investing educators on the internet. He shares:
- Why he chose his college major purely to save $5,000 a year in tuition — and why the classroom demographics sealed the deal
- How 40,000 miles a year on the road became an unlikely PhD in business and investing, while his coworkers listened to Howard Stern
- What Charlie Munger understood about incentives that most investors still get wrong — and why stock-based compensation at most public companies is completely broken
- Why he regrets his MBA (and it’s not because of the money it cost)

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