SF Chronicle does I Will Teach You To Be Rich profile

November 4 19 Comments latest by Eleanor

Welcome new SF Chronicle readers! Please scroll down to see a list of my most popular articles.

The San Francisco Chronicle did an in-depth feature on me and I Will Teach You To Be Rich in today’s paper. Sam Zuckerman, the business reporter who interviewed me, wrote about my motivations, my advice, and where I Will Teach You To Be Rich is going. There’s some stuff in the article that you haven’t seen anywhere else.

Both photo credits: Mike Kepka, SF Chronicle

The article begins like this:

Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing. But he doesn’t look like someone you’d rely on for advice about how to handle your money.

At a lunch interview, he showed up in the standard uniform for recent college graduates - jeans, T-shirt, a black hoodie and a four-day growth of beard.

And here is the part my friends are going to make fun of me for:

Sethi’s style is part frat boy and part Silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in. At times, he can be downright juvenile, as when he titled a blog anthology “Ramit’s 2007 Guide to Kicking Ass.”

Read the article here: San Francisco Chronicle: Blogger advises young adults on financial strategies

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First time here?

If you’re visiting from today’s SF Chronicle article on personal finance for young people, welcome.

I’m a recent Stanford grad and this is a blog on personal finance and personal entrepreneurship for college students, recent college grads, and everyone else. (Featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, US News & World Report Online, etc.)

This blog is me ranting about a few things and trying to get the points across. Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Making mistakes is ok. Action is more important than reading 50 blogs. Ordinary actions get ordinary results. And there’s a difference between being sexy and being Rich.

Here’s a quick guide to get started:

Some recent popular articles
Conscious Spending: How My Friend Spends $21,000/year Going Out
The $28,000 Question: Why Are We All Hypocrites About Weddings?
Chicken Little and Kooks Who Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
I Hate Indian Network Marketers So Much
Set Smaller Goals: Impress Friends, Get Girls, Lose Weight

Introductory Articles
Why do you want to be rich?
The Best Decision vs. The Financially Smart One
Cheap versus frugal
A big fear I have of this site
2006 Makeover, Step #4: Open your retirement accounts

Investing
Chicken Little and Kooks Who Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
An analysis of 1000+ IWillTeachYouToBeRich survey responses– and some new decisions (Best feedback ever)
Dumb: “Don’t invest; you can’t beat the pros”
All about stocks and bonds
All about mutual funds
Read Warren Buffet’s letters

Personal Entrepreneurship
Set smaller goals: impress friends, get girls, lose weight
Barriers are your enemy
I Hate Indian Network Marketers So Much
We love to debate minutiae
Your College is Not a Technical School
On greed and speed
The Myth of the Great Idea

Miscellaneous
Here are 50 books I recommend
What are we doing on this site?
I bought a tie (I love this post because of how angry the comments are)
Cost vs. value: Why I bought a new car (Sorry guys, but I stand by what I wrote)
Probably one of the best comments this site has ever gotten
Boy am I stupid

Saving
Conscious spending: How my friend spends $21,000/year on going out
Here’s how I set up my financial accounts
Letting your parents manage your money is dumb
The Power of Compounding
Time is NOT money–at least, not yours
Cook at home, you lazy bastard
An Ode to Jim Blomo

Full list of articles
The I Will Teach You To Be Rich Table of contents (hundreds of articles)

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I Will Teach You To Be Rich featured in US News & World Report online

October 5 13 Comments latest by AuntEm

I’m featured in US News & World Report’s Alpha Consumer blog today. (New US News readers, please click here for an easy-to-use introduction to this blog.) Kimberly Palmer, a US News reporter, asked me these questions (and a few more):

• “There are so many books out there on young people and money…what’s different about your advice?”
• “What kind of stories do you hear from your readers who are frustrated with their financial experiences?”
• “Name three things young people can do to improve their financial situation.”

In my responses, I discuss why personal-finance advice is usually boring, give some quick tips for getting started, and threaten to commit suicide if I read another column about not spending money on lattes.

Click to see my answers.

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