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Phil Town

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
253 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

You can do the math.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

For example, somebody who's 45 years old right now who wants to retire in 20 years is going to need about two and a half million dollars in retirement capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

to make it to 90 years old spending in today's capital, in today's dollars, about $50,000 a year, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

And nobody has that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

Okay, so number one, you're not going to get there if you follow the current advice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

Second possibility, you're going to be an active investor, invest on your own and learn how to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

And that's, you know, we have...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

400 people a month coming out here to Atlanta to learn how to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

So that's second choice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

And you're right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

I mean, we have thousands of people a month who come into our marketing and do determine they don't want to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

They just say, no, I want to move on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

So then the third choice is you find a financial advisor that knows what they're doing, who invests the way Buffett does.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

And you put your money with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

But unfortunately, the guys who can really do that are all hedge fund managers managing billions of dollars, and they're not going to take your $50,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

So we're trying to fill that gap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

We're trying to step in and see if we can't make that happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

I mean, he speaks out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

Well, the bet he's making is that an active fund cannot beat the index.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town

Now, of course, over time, yeah.