Upstart Holdings (NASDAQ: UPST) stock rose 36% in May, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Based in San Mateo, California, and founded by ex-employees of Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Upstart is a lending platform that uses artificial intelligence to estimate what it calls "true risk" for anyone taking out a consumer loan. It works with financial institutions, essentially acting as the technology middleman between people buying and selling loans to one another. Read More...
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This man became financially independent at 36 and says the key to happiness is ‘owning your own time’
The 39-year-old landlord, who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, reached $1 million Canadian dollars, or approximately US$791,000, in 2019, though he felt he had reached financial independence even sooner. Chad found the FIRE Movement, made it to $1 million CAD before 40, and became a firefighter and sheepherder along the way. The former network administrator and his partner, Catherine, who is a Ph.D. student and research coordinator, save between 50% and 80% of their income every year and live off of $27,000 in annual expenses.
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