NerdWallet Founder: Now Is the Best Time to Start a Business

Tim Chen, CEO and co-founder of NerdWallet, offers a counter-intuitive take on the economic doom-and-gloom around the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Now is the best time ever to build a company,” he says.

Why should you listen to him?

No. 1, he knows what he's talking about. He started NerdWallet in the middle of the 2018-19 financial crisis after getting laid off.

No. 2, NerdWallet is now worth $500 million.

No. 3, Chen is 37 years old.

No. 4, he offers some damn good reasons for starting a business now.

Check out the full CNBC profile here.