USC FinTech Speaker Series - Acorns Co-Founder - April 19

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USC Students,
 
For the sixth installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Acorns Co-Founder Jeff Cruttenden.
 
Acorns is a financial service that helps people invest their money. Acorns enables its users to start early, invest often, and feel secure about their financial future.  The company helps its users proactively invest. The app rounds up each users’ transactions to the nearest dollar, and invests the change into a diversified portfolio. Simply connect a credit card, or debit card and a checking account. Acorns will automatically recommend a stock portfolio based on the users’ information like age, time horizon, investment goals and the amount of risk they are comfortable taking.
 
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance.  The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking.  As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers.  These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800 - 930pm.
 
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite.  If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students.  For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.   

We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
 
Cheers,
 
Marc Hamud & James Healy