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HIBT Lab! The Financial Diet: Chelsea Fagan

How I Built This · 14 Jul 2022 · 39m

What this episode covers

Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of The Financial Diet, explains how she transformed a personal Tumblr blog into a sustainable multimedia business focused on personal finance for women. She details the company's revenue streams, including ticketed events, YouTube sponsorships, and branded content, while emphasizing her strict ethical red lines against promoting crypto or weight-loss products. Fagan also discusses her deliberate choice to reject venture capital to preserve employee well-being, implementing a four-day work week and equitable pay structures to prioritize sustainability over aggressive growth.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
The Financial Diet, Thought Catalog, Complexly, Intuit, Robinhood, Morning Brew, Insider
Products
Mint, QuickBooks
Also
Hank Green, John Green

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