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Founder

Our mission at Wealthfront is pretty simple: we believe that everyone deserves access to sophisticated financial advice. Over the past five years, Wealthfront has built a technology company focused on re-architecting the finance industry

Founder and Editor of The Times of Entrepreneurship. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter here: www.timesofe.com/introduction. I'm an entrepreneur, award-winning business journalist and an author with deep expertise in finance, technology and international business. I've been on the founding team of four startups, including Wealthfront, the first online financial advisor. My work has been supported by the Kauffman Foundation and Walton Family Foundation. During the pandemic, my stories from were used to reshape the federal government’s small business aid program and the U.S. Census Bureau’s small business reporting policies. With venture capitalist Seth Levine, I am co-author of The New Builders. It argues that the future of the American economy depends on how well we understand the needs of the people most likely to launch businesses today – women and people of color. Launched May 4 2021, it briefly topped books about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on Amazon. In my journalism career, Elizabeth has written or edited for Quartz, Forbes Magazine, Atlantic.com, Stanford GSB, CNBC, HBR.com, BBC Capital, Advertising Age, Newsweek and many others. My stories have been viewed by millions of people worldwide and translated into languages including Arabic, Turkish and Armenian. I've brought a journalist’s sensibilities into the world of finance, with viral features like: Why Venture Capital Doesn’t Build What We Really Need. I have also edited two books on retirement and Wall Street for Charley Ellis, board member of Vanguard Inc., and the author of the classic Winning the Loser's Game.