About Money Under 30
Money Under 30 is a blog and online community devoted to helping twentysomethings learn about and take charge of their personal finances. The site receives over 100,000 pageviews each month and contains over 600 free articles on topics as simple as starting your first savings account and as involved as taking advantage of helpful but confusing tax credits and deductions.
My Story
I’m David Weliver, this site’s founder and editor. Ten years ago, I was just starting college and, at the same time, starting to make financial decisions that would influence the rest of my life.
Of course, I wasn’t perfect. I didn’t have an IRA at age 16; I didn’t know how dangerous credit cards could be at 20.
After graduating from college, however, I landed an editorial job at SmartMoney Magazine.
As I wrote and edited articles about everyday Americans achieving wealth simply by pinching pennies, I began to get a sense for the principals that lead to financial stability A few years later, I decided to write about it on my own. In the fall of 2006, I launched Money Under 30 to blog both about my own road to financial “enlightenment” and also about the more sophisticated personal finance tricks I picked up at SmartMoney.
My goal is simple: To explain personal finance in plain English and provide general financial advice for young adults who are ambitious, but have better things to do than worry about money.
Today, I work as a marketing executive and publish Money Under 30 from my home in Portland, Maine.
Contributors
Money Under 30 has grown with the help of occasional guest writers and a few regular contributors:
Carrie is in her mid-twenties and has also done an amazing job of rebounding from debt and building her net worth. She’s also in the middle of studying for the CPA exam. Carrie lives in Kansas City, Missouri and also blogs at Carrie…on the Cheap.
Simon Zhen is a recent college grad living in New York City. He’s a prolific financial blogger; Simon contributes to an interest rate-tracking Website and maintains his own blog, the Realm of Prosperity.
Stan recently graduated and now works for a New York trading firm. Stan managed investments for family members and friends before even graduating from college; now he writes a weekly column for this site providing investing and economic commentary and also maintains his own blog, The Zen Financier.
Together, we’re thrilled to be providing financial insight and commentary to thousands of twenty somethings (and other readers) every day. So whether you want to know the difference between traditional and Roth IRAs or simply need some inspiration as you dig yourself out of debt, you’ve come to the right place!
Press
David has been interviewed or quoted by major media outlets, including:
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