In 2017, I attended a retirement seminar at work.
Most of the room was 50+ years old. Retirement was on their minds. We all wanted education, and we were excited to learn from an expert.
What we heard instead was a sales pitch dressed up as advice. Most people left more confused than they started. There was no clarity.
That room deserved better. So did every investor and soon-to-be retiree who'd ever sat in it.
And it set me down a life-changing path...
My name is Jesse Cramer.
I started The Best Interest in 2018 - just a year after that retirement seminar. I was working as an engineer designing satellite telescopes.
But I was more interested in personal finance, investing, and how money interacts with our lives. One educational conversation at a time, I realized: helping people is what I’m meant to do.
That’s why I built this blog and podcast. To share what I’ve learned and cut through the noise with clear, honest insight.
400+ articles later, the blog attracts 20,000 readers a month.
The podcast garnered more than 120,000 downloads in 2025.
And I left engineering. Permanently.
I now work at a fiduciary wealth management firm, serving clients nationwide.
If you're interested to learn more about my story - and the power of simple financial decisions compounded over many years - here's an interview I did with expert Andy Hill.
Ben Franklin wrote, “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” (Yes – that’s how I got the blog’s name!). I believe in those words. You'll earn a massive return on investment if you invest in knowledge.
The Best Interest helps tens of thousands of retirees and people planning for retirement, every single month. And all for free. Because, as Lawrence Lessig said,
“If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.”
The Best Interest will help you too.
-Jesse
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