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Dear LearnVest readers,

I want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving and let you know how grateful I am to have you in our LearnVest community.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about gratefulness and what really makes us happy. This has been a truly happy year for me personally—the LearnVest audience has grown 310%, our company is celebrating...

85 Broads member Alexa von Tobel, the 27 year old CEO of LearnVest, has worked hard and smart to successfully launch and build her company.  And she's as tenacious as she is smart -- making it big takes both.  No surprise that her company is now being valued at $100 million.  This young gal is a MOONSHOT.   

SUPER PROUD!!  

Originally posted on BusinessInsider.com

Alexa von Tobel is...

In the summer of 2005, 12 extraordinary women interned with me/85 Broads in Greenwich. Some signed up for two months, some for two weeks.

Our mission that summer: to figure out why young women, for the most part, didn't think investing in the stock market was exciting. We decided to figure out how to make it fun and like most things that work, it was a pretty simple concept...