Ramit's Failed Stanford Classes

A story about how Ramit Sethi tried and failed to get students to attend his free financial classes at Stanford in his early days.

"I hung up flyers and tried to get my friends in the dining halls in college to come to my free event, and nobody came for like a year and a half. Nobody would come to my event. I would struggle to get people to come to get a free class on money. I got like a handful of people over a year and a half.

The reason for that, I later learned, is that people don't really like going to events about money - it makes them feel bad about themselves. When you're young and hungry, you go 'this isn't working, the world needs to hear what I have to say.' You can either give up, and sometimes you should, or in my case, I was like 'these kids are so lazy they don't even want to come to a free class, I'm just gonna start a blog.'

That's the path - it wasn't like flyers and then Netflix show. There's a lot of trying and failing in between the two."