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Wilson brings more than 25 years of experience advising dynamic startups including Okta, Pinterest, Stripe, and Zendesk. She also spent 13 years as Amazon’s General Counsel guiding strategic decisions across the company’s retail, cloud computing, content, and hardware businesses.
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The Future Of Investing: Fintech 50 2025
Wealthfront, which was founded in 2008, made the first Fintech 50 list in 2015. It’s been growing too fast to ignore. With $80 billion in total assets, up from $55 billion a year ago, it has left every other new-age robo-advisor in the dust. Its revenue grew 46% last year and has soared 260% in a two-year span, from $80 million in 2022 to $289 million in 2024.

The Future Of Investing: Fintech 50 2024
Wealthfront, the Palo Alto, California-based robo-advisor which was on our very first Fintech 50 list for 2015, is making a triumphal return. In 2023, its revenue grew 150% to $200 million and assets under management grew 76% to $55 billion thanks to new products like an automated bond portfolio that is yielding around 5.5%.

Tech stocks’ wild ride makes the case for index-fund investing, says Wall Street guru Burt Malkiel
In a letter to Wealthfront investors released Tuesday, Malkiel reminds readers that trying to pick a sector of the stock market that will outperform the rest is akin to trying to time the market: a losing prospect. The best practices for building wealth via investing remain the basics, including “broad diversification, indexing, minimizing costs and taxes, rebalancing, and staying the course.”

Robo-Advisor Wealthfront Automates the Tedious Task of Creating a Bond Ladder
“We’re excited to offer this now because Treasury yields are the highest they have been in years,” says Dave Myszewski, vice president of product at Wealthfront.