Graham Stephan
26 things Graham uses or recommends, from 19 episodes.
Graham's top picks
What Graham uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"So here's a really good way to digest a ton of research. If you open up Claude, you create a project. This is one of the ways that I researched you for this podcast. I downloaded the transcript for every single one of the podcasts, saved it as a PDF, uploaded it to the context of the Claude project, and then I asked how many times were these things covered in the podcast. And this was all done in like 15 minutes of just downloading transcripts and uploading the context. It's incredible."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I started taking magnesium and I was blown away. Like it actually made a difference. And I don't know if it's the specific one that I'm taking, but it legitimately made a difference and I sleep like very deeply now."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I drink some of them and I'm not like a super big energy drink aficionado, but I'm familiar with a few of the brands. I was blown away by it... It is truly a great product. I loved it and I told her no to these things that you restocked. Yes to these, especially Bloom, like continue restocking it."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"What's funny is that Shopify actually sponsors quite a bit of our podcast. They're fantastic. It's how I sold Bankroll Coffee in the beginning."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I bought a tax-free muni bond. So this is real estate that I just sold in LA and I did the calculation that I earn a little more in a tax-free muni bond than in the property... So now I make more money tax-free without any of the hassle of real estate."
Recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Everything else should be invested throughout, probably index funds. You could split it up throughout like United States companies, international companies, and then you're going to keep some off to the side for safe investments like treasuries and bonds. Again, they're all index funds. The more boring it is, the better it's going to be for you long term."
What Graham warns against
Things Graham says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"Others I lost, like Robinhood unfortunately. My Robinhood loss ended up becoming one of our most viewed clips — I think cumulatively we probably got 50 million views on just me losing money on Robinhood."
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All 26 of Graham's picks
- Claude Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "So here's a really good way to digest a ton of research. If you open up Claude, you create a project. This is one of the ways that I researched you for this podcast. I downloaded the transcript for every single one of the podcasts, saved it as a PDF, uploaded it to the context of the Claude project, and then I asked how many times were these things covered in the podcast. And this was all done in like 15 minutes of just downloading transcripts and uploading the context. It's incredible." +245 others
- Magnesium Uses and recommends it "I started taking magnesium and I was blown away. Like it actually made a difference. And I don't know if it's the specific one that I'm taking, but it legitimately made a difference and I sleep like very deeply now." +15 others
- Bloom Sparkling Energy Uses and recommends it "I drink some of them and I'm not like a super big energy drink aficionado, but I'm familiar with a few of the brands. I was blown away by it... It is truly a great product. I loved it and I told her no to these things that you restocked. Yes to these, especially Bloom, like continue restocking it." Only Graham
- Shopify Uses and recommends it "What's funny is that Shopify actually sponsors quite a bit of our podcast. They're fantastic. It's how I sold Bankroll Coffee in the beginning." +9 others
- Municipal bonds Uses and recommends it "I bought a tax-free muni bond. So this is real estate that I just sold in LA and I did the calculation that I earn a little more in a tax-free muni bond than in the property... So now I make more money tax-free without any of the hassle of real estate." +1 other
- Index funds Recommends it 2 episodes "Everything else should be invested throughout, probably index funds. You could split it up throughout like United States companies, international companies, and then you're going to keep some off to the side for safe investments like treasuries and bonds. Again, they're all index funds. The more boring it is, the better it's going to be for you long term." +12 others
- Tesla Uses and recommends it "I really like the Tesla because I could pre-cool it before I get in the car. Little things like this." +24 others
- Finasteride Uses it "I've been on finasteride for seven years now... one milligram a day, and I was really worried about the side effects... and at the end of the day I was exactly the same. I noticed zero difference whatsoever." Only Graham
- Tax-loss harvesting Recommends it "The best thing you could do is tax-loss harvest. So you'll sell it and you could buy it right back. If you actually own the Bitcoin itself, you could sell and buy back the same day. There's no wash sale. Claim the loss and then use that loss to offset other capital gains." Only Graham
- Tesla Model 3 Uses it "That's why I still drive the 2019 Tesla Model 3. Like, I just don't care." +1 other
- Rocket Money Uses it "I have Rocket Money and I'm able to see the debt category and the asset category, and just having that go down significantly — I don't know, I just felt better." Only Graham
- Money Chimp Uses it "When I was 18 years old, I'll never forget this. I put a dollar in the Money Chimp calculator and then I saw that by the age of 65 that would be worth like $40 or $50. And I thought, 'Oh my gosh, every dollar I spend is actually worth 50 bucks.'" Only Graham
- Vanguard Uses it "I started off with index funds in 2013 with a Roth IRA, Vanguard index fund, super simple." +6 others
- Botox Uses it "I did that as well. I got collagen injected and Botox injected and then one other thing injected." Only Graham
- Bitcoin Uses it "Mine is $169,000 and it's because Bitcoin is up quite a bit today. My cost basis of Bitcoin in this was like 28 to 32K." +16 others
- Ethereum Uses it "Ethereum I bought in at the very bottom of like $20-something and I was up like 1,000-something percent. I figured instead of selling I'm just going to let it ride, and now I'm basically break even or down a little bit." +1 other
- Kirkland Signature Uses it "There's a very specific underwear I like. It's the Kirkland Signature Premium Whatever." Only Graham
- Lululemon Uses it "These pants I purchased with my Lululemon credit that I get with the Amex Platinum. These pants were like $130 and my credit was 75. So, I paid an additional, you know, 70 bucks." Only Graham
- Saks Fifth Avenue Uses it "This shirt I purchased with my Saks Fifth Avenue credit that I get from the Saks Fifth Avenue. These pants I purchased with my Lululemon credit that I get with the Saks Fifth Avenue." Only Graham
- ChatGPT Uses it "I had these long discussions with Gemini and ChatGPT and Grok. They know everything about me." +155 others
- Gemini Uses it "I had these long discussions with Gemini and ChatGPT and Grok. They know everything about me." +71 others
- Community college Recommends it "I will say community college is extremely underrated. I went and I think the first semester of my community college was like $7 because there was like a program with my local high school and the local community college." Only Graham
- S&P Recommends it "Dollar cost average into an S&P 500 index fund with international diversification. Save as much money as possible. Every video ends with that, but the packaging is so much to be able to get people to watch the video to get to that point." Only Graham
- Vanguard index funds Recommends it "VT, VTI, VO — the Vanguard index funds. You're happy with it, you recommend it. That's why I stick with index funds. You're not going to lose millions. The worst in a day might be like a few percent." +1 other
- Eight Sleep Recommends it "For me, as an example, I'll just say like the Eight Sleep. I sleep way better having the Eight Sleep. They're not sponsoring us and they're not sponsored. But I will say an Eight Sleep." +16 others
- Taxable Brokerage Accounts Recommends it "Everything else goes towards a small amount lifestyle, the rest savings, taxable brokerage accounts — that's it. Don't do anything fancy." Only Graham