Al Bentley is the founder and CEO of Simply Wall St, a Sydney based start-up helping transform the way everyday people around the world invest, by empowering them to understand complicated financial data and make better, non-emotional decisions. Simply Wall St has over 3 million customers in 170 countries and the platform covers all global markets. Al is a self-taught stock investor who like many others had a painful experience when investing in stocks for the first time. “The experience was just so bad I thought there surely must be a better way. It turns out there isn’t. So I decided to build it.”

Episode blog post: https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/simplywallst

“I still believe that it benefits the industry for investing to appear complex and difficult and something that professionals should do versus something that individuals can be empowered to do. The whole industry is built around that”

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