Alec Renehan

Those lessons were really valuable.

But if people can read the book and avoid making those mistakes, that's sort of what we wanted to achieve with the book.

We have definitely milked that story for a lot of content, but I thought the AFR article was pretty funny because it was basically like this guy lost a hundred percent of his money on an investment.

Now buy his book.

No, no.

But, you know, I was at uni at the time and that money counts a lot more because, you know, you're working a part time job and you're trying to save.

But, you know, getting that, I think it was a thousand dollars to start investing like that.

That took a lot of time as a part time worker at uni.

So it hurt.

You guys go.

Everything's okay.

It's a tough one to figure out because we've learned so much in the journey and you start by saying you want to fit everything in the book and it very quickly becomes too much.

So we really just wanted to sort of go step by step and focus on what we thought was important for people getting started.

And

And the great thing is because we've got this equity mates community, we get a lot of questions and we hear what people's biggest challenges are.

So we had a pretty good guide in terms of where the barriers were that were stopping people getting started.

And we really just focused on that.

But we have a bit of a catch-all section at the end, which was lessons we wish we knew when we got started.

And that really let us just put other stuff in that we thought was important to include in the book.

But there was one big debate that Bryce and I had because the most common question we get at Equity Mates is what broker should I sign up with?