Money Under 30 is an independent personal finance education website online since 2006.
Simply put, the site exists to offer free money knowledge to help you start your financial life on the right foot.
I started the site when I was 26 years old after a stint working for SmartMoney — what used to be Dow Jones’ monthly personal finance magazine. Despite working as a financial journalist, I struggled to afford living in New York City while repaying student loans and other debt. Oh, and I had lousy financial role models. When I was in high school, my parents went nearly bankrupt but just kept on borrowing money in an attempt to keep things afloat. Credit card debt was so normalized in my family that I ignorantly racked up my own.
Looking to the Internet for help turning my finances around, I didn’t find much written for a young guy like me. So I began blogging about my goal to repay my debt before turning 30. Money Under 30 was born.
Since then, Money Under 30 has served millions of readers looking for advice and solidarity around their financial decisions.
In 2017, I sold the website to a corporate publisher that ran it for several years. In 2023, that company went out of business and I bought the site back in order to have control over my digital legacy.
The Internet has changed a lot since 2006. With the rise of video and AI summaries, written websites’ role in our informational lives isn’t what it once was. There’s an overload of financial advice out there. Unfortunately, a lot of it’s bad.
This site is no longer my full-time job, but as I have time I will tend to it in order to ensure the information that’s provided is accurate and trustworthy. I’ll keep the fire here lit as long as people are visiting.
If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to contact me. I enjoy hearing real questions or stories from readers, but requests to link to your website or promote your product will be ignored, sorry.
-David