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Even launches employer-sponsored emergency savings solution

New program builds on Even’s success: Even members have already moved more than $200 million into savings.

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Samantha Goldman and Preston Clark

Even News: Key Milestone and Strategic Hires

Even Surpasses $2.5 Billion in On-Demand Pay, Strengthens Leadership Team to Improve Financial Health of Fortune 1000 Workers

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On-demand pay: What’s savings got to do with it? — Part 4

This is the fourth and final post in a series that explores why any tool to improve employee financial resilience must include proven ways to save.

Walmart + Even

Earned Wage Access Impact Study on Walmart + Even

Walmart study shows impact of responsible earned wage access with tools to help employees plan, budget, and save. View the key takeaways from Even here.

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PayPal Partners with Even: On‑Demand Pay Platform

Even will provide new tools to improve the financial health of PayPal's workforce with our on‑demand pay platform. Learn about Even's partnership with PayPal.

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Taking care of patients by taking care of employees

How CoxHealth helps its workforce stay focused on patient care with responsible earned wage access.

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The secret to driving high adoption of employee benefits

The marketing strategies to build trust, generate demand, and leverage your brand that will lead to success.

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4 TED Talks every forward-thinking employer and business leader should watch

Innovative and inspiring thinking from experts on diversity, leadership, financial wellness, and employee engagement.

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Saving money is hard, but Even members are getting it done

Experts agree that having short-term savings is critical to financial stability. Here’s how we’re helping our members save.

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7 things you’re getting wrong about your employees’ finances

Common misconceptions about saving, budgeting, and financial stress could be hurting your workers.

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4 steps for employers to build employee financial security

Advice for employers from an expert on savings strategies, policy, and priorities for financially vulnerable consumers.

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Earned wage access: a guide to getting it right

Get the new guide that will help you understand, evaluate, and choose the most responsible EWA solution for your workforce and your business.

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Why Saving Money Is Hard |Psychology of Saving Money | Even

Aspects of our psychology make saving difficult. Learn about why saving money is so hard, and ways we can make it easier online here from Even.

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The dangers of viewing credit cards as an alternative to emergency savings

In an emergency credit cards are better than nothing — but they can carry high risks.

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Why we unsubscribe our own paying users every month

Relying on traditional subscription tactics won’t help us build a useful service for our members.

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Not all earned wage access products are created equal

Small differences between EWA providers can have big impacts on your employees.

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To build responsible earned wage access, the mission must come first

Our approach to building an EWA product that prioritizes long-term outcomes over short-term gains.

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Those hit hardest by Coronavirus need more than emergency fixes

Temporary pandemic remedies can lead us to long-term solutions for America’s working class.

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Break glass in case of emergency

Inside Even & Financial Wellness

Even launches employer-sponsored emergency savings solution

New program builds on Even’s success: Even members have already moved more than $200 million into savings.

Read now
Samantha Goldman and Preston Clark

Inside Even

Even News: Key Milestone and Strategic Hires

Even Surpasses $2.5 Billion in On-Demand Pay, Strengthens Leadership Team to Improve Financial Health of Fortune 1000 Workers

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Earned Wage Access & Financial Wellness

On-demand pay: What’s savings got to do with it? — Part 4

This is the fourth and final post in a series that explores why any tool to improve employee financial resilience must include proven ways to save.

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Walmart + Even

Earned Wage Access & Employer Brand

Earned Wage Access Impact Study on Walmart + Even

Walmart study shows impact of responsible earned wage access with tools to help employees plan, budget, and save. View the key takeaways from Even here.

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Earned Wage Access & Financial Wellness

On-demand pay: What’s savings got to do with it? — Part 3

This is the third post in a series that explores why any tool to improve employee financial resilience must include proven ways to save.

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Earned Wage Access & Financial Wellness

On-demand pay: What’s savings got to do with it? — Part 2

This is the second post in a series that explores why any tool to improve employee financial resilience must include proven ways to save.

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Inside Even

A new chapter for Even

Introducing David Baga.

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Earned Wage Access & Financial Wellness

On-demand pay: What’s savings got to do with it? — Part 1

This is the first post in a series that explores why any tool to improve employee financial resilience must include proven ways to save.

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Financial Wellness & Employer Brand

Smart shifts your company can make to reduce employee stress

Timely employee wellness insights from Thrive Global CEO Arianna Huffington and Even CEO Jon Schlossberg.

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Financial Wellness & Inside Even

Case study: Noodles & Co.

How Noodles & Co. used Even’s responsible on-demand pay platform to improve employee financial health, loyalty, and retention

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Financial Wellness & Inside Even

Financial Health Network and Even: Research to increase savings with Even

Can slight tweaks to our app make a big difference in member savings?

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Earned Wage Access

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) advisory opinion

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an opinion in which they noted the important role that earned wage access can play.

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Earned Wage Access & Inside Even

PayPal Partners with Even: On‑Demand Pay Platform

Even will provide new tools to improve the financial health of PayPal's workforce with our on‑demand pay platform. Learn about Even's partnership with PayPal.

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Inside Even

To move the needle on financial wellness, start with the truth

How Even’s culture of research and experimentation drives our business and product design.

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Earned Wage Access

Taking care of patients by taking care of employees

How CoxHealth helps its workforce stay focused on patient care with responsible earned wage access.

Read now
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Employer Brand

The secret to driving high adoption of employee benefits

The marketing strategies to build trust, generate demand, and leverage your brand that will lead to success.

Read now
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Earned Wage Access & Inside Even

How Even keeps earned wage access secure for everyone

How we combine culture, automation, and key partnerships to keep employer and employee data safe.

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Earned Wage Access

What Is Earned Wage Access? [EWA & On-Demand Pay] | Even

What is earned wage access, also known as EWA and on-demand pay? Learn how this benefit can be a powerful wellness solution for employees online from Even here.

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Employer Brand

Does your corporate culture need to evolve?

Four tips from leaders at PepsiCo, CVS, and Sodexo on helping your employees navigate uncertainty and stress.

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Employer Brand

4 TED Talks every forward-thinking employer and business leader should watch

Innovative and inspiring thinking from experts on diversity, leadership, financial wellness, and employee engagement.

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Financial Wellness

Saving money is hard, but Even members are getting it done

Experts agree that having short-term savings is critical to financial stability. Here’s how we’re helping our members save.

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Inside Even

How fintechs can navigate regulatory ambiguity

Tips for innovating in financial services where guidance is limited, ambiguous, or both.

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Inside Even

Keeping the learning going no matter what

The story of how one Evener and his wife researched, built, and are running a “learning pod” in their community during the pandemic.

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Inside Even

Responsibilities of an Interviewer | 5 Responsibilities | Even

When building your interview practices, remember to think like a candidate. View the top five responsibilities of an interviewer online from Even here.

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Earned Wage Access & Inside Even

Even makes CB Insights’ Fintech 250 list of fastest-growing fintech startups

Even's responsible EWA solution, which helps employers do right by their people, was listed in the "payroll and benefits" category.

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Financial Wellness

7 things you’re getting wrong about your employees’ finances

Common misconceptions about saving, budgeting, and financial stress could be hurting your workers.

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Earned Wage Access

How to help your people when they’re struggling financially (in plain English)

A simplified look at where employee financial insecurity comes from, and how you can help.

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Earned Wage Access

Are your employees paying too much to manage their finances?

By choosing the right financial wellness benefit, you could save your workers almost $600 per year.

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Inside Even

Why do people trust Even?

6 ways we use design to build two-way trust into the Even app.

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Financial Wellness

How payday loans are quietly eating away at your bottom line

Financially stressed workers are payday lenders’ bread and butter. Their gain is your loss.

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Inside Even

How to Interview Engineers | Interview Process | Even

Find out how to interview engineers and learn about our entire interview process at Even including the tradeoffs we make and why we make them, here.

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Financial Wellness

4 steps for employers to build employee financial security

Advice for employers from an expert on savings strategies, policy, and priorities for financially vulnerable consumers.

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Earned Wage Access

Earned wage access: a guide to getting it right

Get the new guide that will help you understand, evaluate, and choose the most responsible EWA solution for your workforce and your business.

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Inside Even

Bazel Test | Fast and Easy Testing | Even

Run 4,200 tests on every change with this one simple command. Learn more about how you can perform fast and easy testing with Bazel online from Even today.

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Financial Wellness

Why Saving Money Is Hard |Psychology of Saving Money | Even

Aspects of our psychology make saving difficult. Learn about why saving money is so hard, and ways we can make it easier online here from Even.

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Inside Even

Optimizing for impact

And why you should, too.

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Employer Brand

What does it take to become one of the world’s most admired companies?

A snapshot into how a few of the companies on Fortune’s recent list have become so widely admired.

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Financial Wellness & Employer Brand

How leading employers are taking action on financial wellness and income inequality

Experts from Live Nation, Urban Institute, and LG Electronics explain how to support employees right now.

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Financial Wellness

The dangers of viewing credit cards as an alternative to emergency savings

In an emergency credit cards are better than nothing — but they can carry high risks.

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Earned Wage Access

Choosing responsible earned wage access is more important than ever

Financially vulnerable employees need benefits that are helpful, not harmful.

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Earned Wage Access

To help new employees rebuild financially, pay them sooner

Your new hires can’t afford to wait for payroll. Earned wage access gets them what they need faster.

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Employer Brand

How to get ahead during the great re-hire

To stand out as an employer, offer stand-out benefits that help workers rebuild their lives.

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Employer Brand

Investing in employees’ quality of life is good for your business

Data shows stronger employer brand, consumer sentiment, and overall profits for businesses that put workers first.

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Earned Wage Access

Demystifying earned wage access

Answers to the top questions about earned wage access, straight from an American Payroll Association webinar.

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Financial Wellness

The hows and whys of helping employees build savings

Core insights from a recent webinar with Financial Health Network, Commonwealth, and Common Cents Lab.

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Earned Wage Access

Should your company build earned wage access in house?

The top three things to understand when considering building your own EWA solution for employees.

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Financial Wellness

To help employees build financial security, start with savings

Experts agree that there can be no financial wellness without a strong foundation of savings.

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Inside Even & Earned Wage Access

Why we unsubscribe our own paying users every month

Relying on traditional subscription tactics won’t help us build a useful service for our members.

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Financial Wellness

What does “financial wellness” mean, and where should you start?

A guide for employers who want to fast-track financial benefits to their workforce.

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Employer Brand

How employee benefit expectations are shifting

What will workers be looking for from employers as we navigate COVID-19 together?

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Earned Wage Access

Not all earned wage access products are created equal

Small differences between EWA providers can have big impacts on your employees.

Read now
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Inside Even & Earned Wage Access

To build responsible earned wage access, the mission must come first

Our approach to building an EWA product that prioritizes long-term outcomes over short-term gains.

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Financial Wellness

Why essential workers are turning to payday loans during COVID-19

Offering alternatives to predatory financial products is good for employees, and good for business.

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Employer Brand & Financial Wellness

How essential businesses are keeping front-line workers financially secure

Beyond being the right thing to do, protecting the well-being of employees during COVID-19 is good business.

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Earned Wage Access

Employers can ease financial uncertainty for workers

Offering a way to access pay faster can take a big weight off of employees’ shoulders during COVID-19.

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Employer Brand

From the experts: How to help your employees during COVID-19

Actionable advice from Commonwealth, Financial Health Network, and Common Cents Lab.

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Financial Wellness

When money jars trump 401(k)s

For many, building short-term savings is a more immediate priority than planning for the future.

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Inside Even & Employer Brand

Those hit hardest by Coronavirus need more than emergency fixes

Temporary pandemic remedies can lead us to long-term solutions for America’s working class.

Read now
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Financial Wellness

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it

By measuring employee financial health, employers can choose the right solutions — and make sure they’re working.

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Inside Even

Privilege and peril in fintech

To make meaningful products, we need to address our blind spots.

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Financial Wellness

How do payday loans work?

A deep dive into this financial product that’s harmful to borrowers, and highly lucrative for lenders.

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Inside Even & Financial Wellness

Financial wellness means savings

How we’re helping our members save over $21 million — and counting.

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Financial Wellness

Optimizing employee benefits starts with financial wellness

How unchecked financial stress is undermining business’ efforts to keep employees healthy and productive.

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Financial Wellness

Are your employees so stressed they can’t do their jobs?

Employees who struggle financially also struggle to stay focused at work.

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Financial Wellness

The capitalist mission: impossible

Are purpose and profits mutually exclusive?

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Financial Wellness

The state of financial wellness — Part 4

Most tools available to your employees aren’t helping — and may actually be holding them back.

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Financial Wellness

The state of financial wellness — Part 3

Employees can’t become financially well until they can build savings.

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Financial Wellness

The state of financial wellness — Part 2

Employees are getting sick, losing focus, and missing work because they’re consumed by financial stress.

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Financial Wellness

The state of financial wellness — Part 1

Rising costs, overwhelming debt, and nowhere to turn: The vast majority of Americans can no longer afford a good life.

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Financial Wellness

Everyone deserves their shot at the American Dream

But too few of us have the financial freedom to truly achieve it.

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Financial Wellness

The big costs of a little extra money between paychecks

A roundup of facts about the causes and costs of accessing extra cash before payday, from Even’s podcast, Money Ha Ha

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Financial Wellness

401(k) Loan Epidemic & What Employers Should Be Offering

What is the 401(k) loan epidemic and why are millions of Americans exploring borrowing from their futures to make ends meet? Learn about 401(k) loans here.

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Financial Wellness

Making financial wellness measurable

A data-driven approach to finding out where your employees are struggling financially, and how to help.

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Earned Wage Access

Is on-demand pay the answer to financial stress?

Getting paid early solves short-term cash flow problems — but it’s time to start thinking about the long term.

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Financial Wellness

Most financial wellness programs don’t work

Most financial wellness programs don’t work

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Inside Even

Working on something meaningful

How my quest to work on mental health landed me at a financial wellness startup.

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Financial Wellness

Why financial wellness matters

When employees are stressed, business suffers.

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Inside Even

Why Even needs a cultural vocabulary

Words matter because, consciously and unconsciously, they help us quickly draw a unified, sensible picture of a complex world.

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Inside Even & Financial Wellness

The new normal

Americans everywhere are struggling. How did we get here — and what do we do next?

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Inside Even

What we value — Part 2

As our company grows, we remember our core values.

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Inside Even

Why Even stopped evening

Pay Protection was a really good... and deeply flawed story.

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Inside Even

Anti-perks

What Even doesn’t want in its office

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Inside Even

What we value — Part 1

The Voyager 1 space probe shot a photo of earth from a distance of about 3.7 billion miles.

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Inside Even

Balance hacking

Almost all American households have a bank account (FDIC, 2015).

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Inside Even

When all your money ever says is goodbye

To illustrate the stress our members feel about money, they made some drawings for us.

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Inside Even

Empathy doesn’t scale

But the Even Advisor team is taking a crack at it anyway.

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Inside Even

The road

Yesterday Jon drew something to illustrate what Even needs to do

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Inside Even

Picnic basket budgeting

Spending’s actually just a disguise worn by the real, upstream villain: bills.

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Inside Even

A seat at the table

The promise that we make to Advisors is simple: we will do all we can to support your growth.

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Inside Even

Utility

V1 app data: A retrospective (Part 3 of 3)

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Inside Even

Retention

V1 app data: A retrospective (Part 2 of 3)

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Inside Even

Acquisition

V1 app data: A retrospective (Part 1 of 3)

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Inside Even

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad money funnel

The persistent experience when allocating money is scarcity — not just of money, but of information.

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Financial Wellness

The salary fallacy

The main problem with the first version of Even boils down to a logical fallacy.

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Inside Even

The money funnel

How we watch our money disappear.

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Inside Even

Value flop

How people think about a "salary"

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Inside Even

We’re bad at being Obi-Wan

When we try to be like Obi-Wan and make people think something other than reality is happening, we’re really bad at it.

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Inside Even

Don’t show me the money

Designing savings in Even v1.

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Inside Even

Spending as the enemy of saving

The ultimate goal of tracking your money is to be able to start saving.

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Inside Even

Make the truth unavoidable

Why we do our research out in the open.

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Inside Even

What is Even?

We are building Even because work has changed, but financial services haven’t.

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Inside Even

Why

Of the 7 billion people on this planet, an incredibly tiny fraction of us have the opportunity required to work on humanity’s hardest problems.

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Inside Even

White picket fence banking

The way banking works today is vastly out of touch with the changing ways that America lives and works.

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