The head start, finally within reach.
Taught by Ravi Chopra · Founder & CIO, Azora Capital · Goldman Sachs · Samlyn Capital · Dartmouth Economics
What understanding money unlocks.
One series. Watch it in order, or jump to what’s costing you right now.
Introduction — what understanding money unlocks
The five-minute orientation: what financial literacy actually means, and why the people who profit from your confusion were happy to leave you in the dark.
Welcome: Why I Built This Course
What understanding money unlocks
01Buying a Car
Price first, financing second
02The Power of Compounding
The engine beneath every decision
03Buying a House
Rent, own, and the real numbers
04Credit Cards
How the balance really grows
05Investing
The stock market is not what you think
06Income Taxes and Take-Home Pay
What you earn vs. what you keep
07College: The Second Biggest Financial Decision
The door, not the room
08College to Career (w/ Ravi & Allison)
Relationship beats résumé
09529 Plans and Life Insurance
Protecting the people you love
10The Red Flags
Fifteen things to never buy, take, or sign
From inside the machine — translated for the rest of us.
Ravi Chopra
Twenty-five years inside the machine — Goldman Sachs, Sigma, Partner and Sector Head at Samlyn Capital. Now he explains how money actually moves, in plain language.
Allison Rielly
The voice for the rest of us — asking the questions you would ask, and making sure no answer hides behind jargon.
hiding in plain sight
The lesson the smartest people in the room had never heard.
A table of business-school graduates debated which stock could return twenty, maybe thirty percent. One friend said he could guarantee something better. “What if I could guarantee you a fifty percent return?”
The table leaned in. His answer: “Pay off your credit card debt.” Twenty percent interest erased is a twenty percent return, risk-free — and most people carrying it were never taught to see it that way.
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A basis point is one one-hundredth of one percent. Small moves, compounded, are the whole game.
That is the thesis, and it is the method. Learn to make the small moves on purpose.
Stop guessing. Start thinking in basis points.
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