aboutLife

Everyone has to retire. 4M Americans do it each year. Yet, 87% of us don't know how we are going to manage it. Using big data, we're helping people make better choices for a better retirement.

Founded 2013
1-15 employees
  • Banking, Corporate Finance, & Investing
  • Headquarters address
    450 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

    Our Story

    Sometimes, when you are sleep-deprived, there are moments of pure clarity.

    During one of those sleepless nights after my first daughter was born, I started to think about the future – her future, my wife’s future, and my future. How much did we need to save for her college? Were we in the right house or the right school district? Would my wife really want to go back to work? Would I want to work? What would happen to her if something happened to my wife or me? Would she be the one to take care of us when my wife and I got old?

    So, I picked up my iPad. The number of articles giving advice is overwhelming. Online calculators were more promising, but they required me to know things I didn’t (like what will the rate of inflation be for the next 50 years?). Why was it so hard and time-consuming to figure any of this out? There are quick, easy apps to help us pick restaurants, hotels, movies, and more. But what do we use for the biggest, most important decisions in life?

    That's why I started aboutLife.

    We are working on a product that will help you make all your life decisions about family, finances, jobs, health, and more - starting with retirement. Our core belief is that by using data & technology, we can:
    - Do the hard work for you
    - Work with the time you have, whether it is hours or just 5 minutes
    - Help you make the best decisions

    We have a lot of work to do to deliver on this promise and are looking for folks who want to help us make this vision a reality.

    Our technology in action

    Do you know how much money you will make in 10 years? Most of us don't know the answer. To make big life decisions, you really ought to know where your financial life is heading. At aboutLife, we hold ourselves to a simple, higher standard – it's our job to do the hard work for our users.

    Try out our tool and see what you think.

    Working at aboutLife

    Yes, we're "collaborative," "flexible," "friendly," and every other term every other startup uses to describe their culture. What defines us is that we're a small, low key team harboring anything but a small or low-key ambition: we want to have a huge impact on the lives of each and every person in the country. This ambition comes with an endless supply of big challenges. So, we look for people with endless energy who want to own and conquer big challenges each day.

    We work out of a great co-working space called SOMACentral. Here are some obligatory pictures of the office:

    Tech stack

    Node.js, React, Python

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    401k plan

    Health and wellness

    Insurance (Health)
    Insurance (Dental)
    Insurance (Vision)

    Values and quality of life

    Catered meals
    aboutLife - Our little slice
    aboutLife - The common area