Andy Rachleff on founding Benchmark & Wealthfront

Andy Rachleff, Wealthfront, Customer Acquisition, Funding, System

I did this interview because I wanted to know happens when one of the most successful venture capitalists becomes a startup founder.

Andy Rachleff is the founder of Benchmark Capital, whose investments include Uber, Snap, eBay, and Juniper Networks.

More recently, he founded Wealthfront, the automated investment firm. It invests your money with minimal amount of work from you. Then it monitors your portfolio daily to look for opportunities to rebalance or harvest tax losses.

Mixergy listeners can get their first $15K managed for free when they sign up at wealthfront.com/mixergy.

Andy Rachleff

Wealthfront

Andy Rachleff is the founder of Wealthfront, an automated investment service that’s allowing people to invest in a smarter way.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. I am so freaking proud to bring this interview to you.

Joining me today is a man who founded one of the top legendary firms in all of tech. He is the cofounder of Benchmark, it’s a venture capital firm that invested most recently in companies including Uber and Snap. Historically, they’ve been known to have successes going all the way back to eBay and Juniper Networks.

Here he is on Mixergy talking a little bit about Benchmark and also about his new company. It’s called Wealthfront. It’s an automated investment service that’s allowing people to invest in a really smart way. I think younger and younger people are going to–in fact, they already have gravitated towards it. I’m excited about it too. His name is Andy Rachleff and I’m so proud to have him on here.

I’ll say that the two sponsors for this interview are the...

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