#69: Invest with Titan

Path to Progress with Paul Heintzman and John Ackerman

Clay Gardner, a co-founder of Titan, joins us to share how anyone can invest like a hedge-fund investor.

Some questions answered in this episode:

• How did you teach yourself investment strategies and how to build the company?
• How did you develop the current model and what was the first year like?
• How did you meet your co-founders?
• How does Titan determine their clients' investments?
• Does every investor have the same investments or are they customized?
• Why do the portfolios consist of exactly 20 stocks?
• What tips do you give to millennials to encourage them to invest long-term?
• What methods does Titan use to educate their investors?
• What does your typical day look like?
• What factors influenced your decision to leave your job and found Titan?
• How did Titan grow and what were some of the major turning points?
• What was the process of being accepted into Y Combinator and what did you learn?
• Why did you return to New York instead of staying in Silicon Valley or moving to another city?
• What mistakes did you make launching Titan and what would you do differently?
• What is the future of Titan?

Last call:

• What advice would your 60-year-old self give you today?
  • Think exponentially and bet bigger
• What is the best advice you have received on entrepreneurship?
  • Don't sit in a room and think of business ideas, think of problems and find the solution.
• What is a book/documentary/podcast you would recommend?
  • Invest Like the Best podcast
• What is the best thing you spent money on in the last six months?
  • Airpods
• What's your favorite thing to drink?
  • Old Fashioned
  • Bulleit Bourbon

Notes:

• A Randon Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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