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1 week ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. Also, I’ll be in Tel Aviv in a few weeks. If you’re in Tel Aviv, or if you know anyone interesting in the Tel Aviv tech/startup scene, could you shoot me a note at [email protected]? Thank you :)God, it must feel so good to be Donald Trump on weeks like last week.
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1 week ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
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2 weeks ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. I turned 28 last Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. You can also listen to this blog post on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. My Uber rides fall into one of two categories:I check the license plate number, wait for the driver to ask, “Jack?” nod my head, hop in the back, throw in my AirPods, and listen to music in peace until we reach the destination.
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1 month ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. Also, side note: apparently, a lot of people who don’t necessarily “read” newsletters/blogs listen to the audio versions (?). I’ve always been more of a book/blog guy than an audio guy, but, going forward, I’ll be uploading audio versions too. You can listen above, or here on Spotify / Apple Podcasts.
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1 month ago | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. Between my freshmen and sophomore years of college, I came to a disturbing realization: I was set to graduate in approximately 2.5 years. Thanks to a combination of high school credits and mandatory summer courses for football players, I was going to reach the 120 credits needed for graduation in December of my junior year.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. A brief note: thank you to everyone who replied, commented, texted, or DM’d me last week regarding my new job and move to SF. The internet is an awesome place, and a big move is much less daunting knowing you have friends ready to help you adjust to a new geography and career.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. There’s this old Yiddish proverb that says, “Der mentsh trakht un Got lakh.” In English, it translates to: Man plans, God laughs. That’s been an accurate description of my life lately. Six weeks ago, I applied to a new job in New York. Three days ago, I started that new job in New York.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. One memory that stands out from growing up in a small town in the South was the slowness of everything. Church services on Sunday mornings seemingly lasted for hours, and once the service finally ended, it took us 30 minutes to get to the car because we would stop and talk to everyone we knew on the way to the parking lot.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
youngmoney.co | Jack Raines
Welcome to Young Money! If you’re new here, you can join the tens of thousands of subscribers receiving my essays each week by adding your email below. Masayoshi Son, the CEO and founder of Softbank, holds a particularly desirable title: multi-billionaire. For 22 years, Masayoshi Son also held a particularly undesirable title: largest loss of personal net worth in history, $70 billion.