Money Experience

We're motivated by the fact that nearly 75% of high school graduates are ill-equipped to make critical financial decisions.* This massive and growing need is top-of-mind for educators, legislators, and the financial services industry - but current products have failed to engage or educate students in a meaningful way.

Our approach is different. We teach financial concepts, without emphasizing math. This makes our platform and curriculum more accessible to a wider range of students, better holding interest and inspiring curiosity. We focus on quality of life, and provide a non-judgmental way for students to test their assumptions about the future. We use a graphic novel to convey concepts, providing emotional context for life moments that may seem abstract to younger users, and through this context foster empathy for their future selves.

Our "life simulator" lets students make major life decisions and immediately see the impact on their finances and quality of life. What kind of education should they pursue? Will the career a student wants support the lifestyle they envision? How will their financial choices inform their quality of life and vice versa? In our platform they can experiment and see the consequences of their decisions on their future.

We're seeking engineers to help us build the future of a product that supports both education and consumer markets, and help us scale to meet the size of the opportunity.

*http://www.jumpstart.org/assets/files/2008SurveyBook.pdf