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Titan Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Clayton Gardner - 'Courtside Seats' to Active Money Management


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In a long-anticipated episode for her, Ally McCloskey sits down with Titan Co-CEO & Co-Founder and fellow Wharton alum, Clayton Gardner. Clay and team set out to democratize active money management by offering the proverbial 'back of the restaurant' investment menu to the masses. Said differently, Titan is an active investment management platform that unlocks world-class investment products and experiences for everyone. Since its founding in 2018, the company has graduated from Y Combinator and grown from zero to over $500M in assets under management and over 25,000 clients with essentially zero marketing budget, making them one of the fastest growing advisors on record. Titan also just raised its $12.5M Series A led by General Catalyst with participation from Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures, Lee Fixel, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz, and many others.
In this episode, Ally and Clay discuss:
-How Clay and his co-founder Joe reunited 6 years after meeting in Wharton undergrad to democratize active investing
-the investor persona Titan was built for and why active management in public equities hasn’t gone out of style
-Clay’s most memorable week in markets rejecting a portfolio company’s initial acquisition tender offer
-his advice to entrepreneurs on product-market fit, when to raise capital, and how to measure true customer loyalty
-what he’s most excited about in the future of investing
-the investor he admires most
And MUCH more
Clay Gardner
Clay (@virtualclay) is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Titan, an active investment management platform democratizing elite investment products and experiences for everyone. Prior to Titan, Clay was an investor at several hedge funds and investment firms including Farallon Capital Management and Cerberus Capital Management. He graduated summa cum laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the Wharton School and the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned dual degrees in Economics and Computer Science.
As mentioned in the episode, you can download Titan's mobile app at www.titanvest.com and get invested in just minutes.
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