Chris Hutchins, avid life hacker, financial optimizer and host of the top ranked podcast, “All the Hacks,” joins the Journey To Launch podcast to discuss how he amassed 14 million credit card points and upgrades his life without spending a fortune.
We also talk about the dangers of optimizing too much, intentionally spending and hacking your personal finances, analysis paralysis, and more.
Before jumping into the content creation world, Chris was the Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront, an investor at Google Ventures, co-founded Milk (acquired by Google) and built an organization called LaidOffCamp. He has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. In this episode you’ll learn about:
How selling a business does not always mean making a profit
Why falling down rabbit holes of information changed Chris’s life
What being in a job Chris hated taught him about Financial Independence
Travel hacking, using money to have experiences you can uniquely have now, memory dividends + more
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