Every “robo-advisor AUM by provider” chart you’ve seen floating around is wrong, and not in a rounding-error way. Most of...
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Will, being the millennial and software engineer of the pair, is very interested in the technology behind robo advisors.
Will graduated Stanford with a M.S. in Computer Science. After starting his own software company out of college, he sold it after 3 years, going on to work for two other major startups in Silicon Valley before moving to New York in 2011 to work for a company developing software for automotive companies implementing machine learning into their cars for autonomous systems.
When he’s not working or investing, Will likes to go hiking with his girlfriend Shannon and schnauzer Daenerys (Dae for short.) He’s also getting into ice hockey but wasn’t born with an innate sense of balance.
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