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If You’re Looking To Start Investing, Start Here!

Name: If You’re Looking To Start Investing, Start Here!
Uploaded: 2026-03-05T13:15:40+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: In a concise Q&A, Speaker B advises recent college graduates on how to begin building wealth. The first recommendation is to invest in oneself by…

5 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In a concise Q&A, Speaker B advises recent college graduates on how to begin building wealth. The first recommendation is to invest in oneself by developing high‑value skills, especially in artificial intelligence, because personal income scales with the size of problems one can solve. The second recommendation is to allocate at least 15% of gross earnings immediately to automated investments. This can be done through simple platforms like Acorns or Robinhood that enable weekly automatic purchases of index funds such as the S‑P 500, or by contributing small amounts (as low as $100) to non‑accredited real‑estate funds. The overall message is a straightforward, actionable plan: skill development for higher earning potential, followed by disciplined, automated investing using low‑minimum, diversified vehicles.

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What investing advice do you have for a recent college grad who's just trying to save money at their first job?
Well, number 1, invest in yourself. It's hard to really focus on building passive income or real wealth when you don't have any money or income. So invest in yourself, invest in your skills, invest in utilizing AI and increasing your knowledge in AI to be able to solve big problems for people because your income is a direct result to the, the size of the problems that you solve for others. And then number 2 is immediately as you start earning income, take at least 15% right off the top of your gross revenue and automate you're investing with that money. So it can be as simple as opening up an Acorns account or a Robinhood account and having an automatic purchase every single week into an index fund or, you know, the S&P 500 or any other stocks or funds that you believe in. That's a super simple way to start to automate your investing right away. Or you can even start investing into real estate funds that don't require you to be an accredited investor, and you can invest little amounts of money, as little as $100, into those real estate projects.