July 24, 2025

Make Money by Beating the Stock Market | Sean Tepper

27 minutes

Sean Tepper is the founder and CEO of Tikr, a software platform empowering everyday people to confidently invest in individual stocks. Before launching Tikr,, Sean mastered a system for generating consistent 15–50% annual returns in the stock market—with some years surpassing 100%. Today, Tikr, serves over 12,000 customers in more than 50 countries, combining technology, smart design, and a value investor’s discipline to help regular investors outperform the S&P.

On this episode we talk about:

Sean’s journey from picking strawberries and playing real-time strategy games to building a career in marketing, starting an agency, and investing in stocks

The limitations of traditional education for creative and entrepreneurial thinkers—and how gaming taught Sean more about real-world strategy and multiple income streams than school ever could

How Sean transitioned from agency work to investing, then eventually built his own SaaS business without raising outside capital

The step-by-step process that took him from Excel spreadsheet to global SaaS platform, all while bootstrapping and keeping expenses lean

Why businesses (especially SaaS) are more scalable than real estate, and how stock investing in carefully chosen companies can outpace buy-and-hold real estate strategies

Sean’s approach to value investing, using Tikr, to find and monitor 10–15 high-potential stocks at a time, and switching to index funds for wealth preservation closer to retirement

The critical importance of confidence and education for first-time investors—and why most people lose money trading instead of investing

How Tikr, works (and doesn’t touch your money), using its own green–yellow–red rating system and push notifications to signal when to buy or sell

Top 3 Takeaways

Start Where You Are, Then Leverage Up: Build skills and income with what you have—then invest in scalable businesses or stocks to create real wealth.

Invest, Don’t Trade: 99% of traders lose money; all billionaire stock-market fortunes are built through long-term investing, not day trading.

Confidence Beats Complexity: Knowledge, a clear process, and the right tools (like TKR) empower anyone—even beginners—to make smart investment decisions and outperform the averages.

Notable Quotes

“Video games actually taught me more about the real world and how to win at money than school ever did.”

“Businesses—and especially the right SaaS business—will scale astronomically higher than real estate.”

“The home run is people buying their first stock confidently. That is worth its weight in gold.”

Connect with Sean Tepper:

• • Website & App: ⁠https://www.tikr.com/⁠ (search for TKR on iOS, Android, or web)
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