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Andy Rachleff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

So this is a service, a kind of service that's been offered to the very wealthy for many years, for decades.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

As a matter of fact, Mitt Romney took advantage of this to pay really low taxes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

This was a big issue in the last presidential election.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

But it's never been possible for the average retail investor to access this kind of capability because traditional advisors can only do it at year end.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

It just takes too much time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

The beauty of software, software works 24-7.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

So we can look for these losses daily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

And if you do tax loss harvesting just at year end, according to our research, that can add about

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

0.6% to your annual after-tax return.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

But by looking for these losses daily, it can add, as I said, 1.5% to 2%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

It's really quite amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

About 4.4 billion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

Well, to give you some context,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

I think that Vanguard manages $4 trillion and Charles Schwab manages something like $2.5 trillion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

So that's a tiny drop in the bucket relative to these behemoths.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

And I think that retail investors have more than $20 trillion under management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

As a venture capitalist, what I used to focus on was rate of change, not absolute numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

What you find is that with every new technology that succeeds, it gets adopted at a faster rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

So think about the rate at which the telephone was adopted and then radio and television and cellular telephony and the internet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 498: $130M Raised Wealthfront Crosses 100,000 Investors, $4.4B in AUM with CEO Andy Rachleff

Each new major technology that gets adopted tends to get adopted at a faster rate and grows into a bigger market.