Financial Modeling: FMVA, DCFs, and AI in Excel with Tim Vipond

And I show people how you can use Claude to build a three statement model really quickly, and it's actually, like, shockingly good. And then we also use it for error checking. And, like, I show how you can use Claude in Excel to audit a model, and it perfectly found every single error that we inserted into the model, which was quite awesome. So, yeah, so if you're doing like your own modeling, like your audience is into stock picking and you're building your own model, You could use Cloud and Excel to review your model, give you feedback, find any errors, so on and so on. You're tuned in you're tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast investing for beginners podcast, the show for the long term investor. We cut through the noise to focus on what works, compounding, discipline, and the conviction to buy wonderful businesses and stick with them. Your path to financial freedom start now. Welcome to the Messaging for Beginners podcast. Have another great guest for us today. I have Tim Vipon, the cofounder and CEO of CFI. Just a side note, a lot of the ways I've taught myself in the past about different CFA type topics and finance and modeling has been from your website. So I know this will be a very fun conversation. Thanks for joining us, Tim. Yeah. Thanks. My pleasure to be here. Looking forward to it. Awesome. So can we start at the beginning? Like, what gave you the idea to start a website like this? Did you see a pain point, or were you just following your passion? How did that look? Yeah. Great question. There's a few ways to talk about it. But the first is that I'd had a career in corporate finance for over a decade, had worked in investment banking, wealth management, corporate development. So, you know, that was that was my career, if you will, up until the point where I started CFI, but I actually got into it because I wanted to initially work on my public speaking and have had the best way to work on public speaking was to teach a course to a live audience so I went to a local university in Vancouver and taught a financial modeling course and that went well I enjoyed it got good feedback and one thing led to another and I got introduced to my cofounder, which was MDA Training, a professional, like, investment banking classroom training company, and they wanted to start an online offering. And I was working at shoes.com at the time, so my head was in the SEO and, you know, digital marketing space. And we we came together and launched CFI in 2016. So we just had our ten year anniversary this year. And so that that's, like, how it initially got going. And then, of course, there was, like, a whole a whole, big push into SEO and all sorts of other things, …