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28岁女网红改变了男人主导的理财行业,成为大家的“富婆闺蜜”

28岁女网红改变了男人主导的理财行业,成为大家的“富婆闺蜜”

Jane Thier 2022-12-02
薇薇安·涂为上百万粉丝提供理财建议。

“除了金融业,你还能够想到哪些行业的潜在市场是面向所有人的?”28岁的薇薇安·涂问道。图片来源:COURTESY OF VIVAN TU

薇薇安·涂(Vivian Tu),这位年仅28岁的TikTok博主,账号名称是“你的富婆闺蜜”(Your Rich BFF),知道如何从粉丝能够理解的角度向她的220万粉丝解释私募股权(以金·卡戴珊为例来解释)。

“金·卡戴珊涉足私募股权,将使她成为亿万富翁,而这一切都是用别人的金钱实现的。”涂正视镜头,巧舌如簧,开始了视频录制。“金通过赞助广告、电视节目等方式发家致富,然后通过建立自己的品牌而升级,现在她通过投资别人的品牌而达到了老板级别。”

接着,涂开始了关于私募股权的速成课程——简单介绍了普通合伙人、有限合伙人、佣金和附带收益,整个课程粗制滥造。视频时长59秒。

涂在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示:“私募股权领域信息匮乏,显然,我无法在60秒内面面俱到。但我可以帮助他们,因此现在人们能够更好地理解新闻,更好地阅读头条新闻。”这与她更大的目标是相辅相成的:通过让人们了解他们可能从未想过的解决方案,帮助他们做出明智的财务决策。

正是这种流行文化和学习的融合,让涂在TikTok上如此受欢迎,她幽默、不做作的真实风格让人倍感亲切,可以与观众建立融洽的关系,因此,在她发布第一个视频的一周内吸引了数十万观众。不到两年之后,她和另外两个人组成的团队全职运营这个账号,并出版了一份通讯。

当我告诉她我们要录下此次的Zoom会议时,她要求休息10秒钟好换身衣服,一分半钟后,她穿着一件干净的衬衫,戴着一对耳环回到镜头前,笑着说人们肯定认不出她了。

但是,对于她数以百万计的大部分年轻女粉丝来说,她们一眼就能够认出她来,因为她们收看她的理财建议视频,而她几乎每天都会为被她亲切地称为“剩女”的观众发布理财建议视频。

涂说,直到现在,整个金融服务行业“一直是男性主导、苍白而陈腐的。”她在华尔街开始了职业生涯,因此这一点她再清楚不过了。她表示,在一个潜在市场是面向所有人的行业中,年轻女性、性少数群体和低收入人群往往被排除在外。

考虑到这一点,她设计了“闺蜜”这个绰号。“突然间,你有了一位看起来不像是你父亲的财务顾问的顾问。你有一位看起来像我这样的,可以成为任何人的大学好友的顾问。”她解释道。“我想取悦我的观众,让金融变得更有乐趣,让下一代的富婆闺蜜能够更轻易地谈论金钱。”

金融网红的大生意

和许多在新冠疫情期间崭露头角的网红一样,涂从未料到内容创作可以赚到足够多的钱,以至于成为她的全职工作。“我想告诉你,我有一个邪恶的计划来实现这一切,但我没有。”她说。相反,她说她的职业生涯是从在摩根大通(JPMorgan)担任股票交易员开始的。

2018年,她离开华尔街,寻求更好的个人发展机遇,来到BuzzFeed,在那里,了解她背景的新朋友和同事开始向她寻求理财建议。

但涂认为,财务状况太过个人化,无法提供经验法则之类的建议。“我说:‘我们的个人情况是截然不同的。’就像你有丈夫和两个孩子,住在郊区,而那时,我这个24岁的傻瓜,周末就混迹各大繁华场所,生活方式是绝对不一样的。”

但她收到了很多相同的问题,从医疗保险计划到投资,因此,涂决定凭借自己的金融大师身份,在2021年元旦发布了她的第一个TikTok视频。

“欢迎来到#RichTok。今天是2021年的第一天,我,你们的新富婆闺蜜,依靠自身最好的金融知识技巧和窍门,教你增加财富的新方法。”涂对着镜头说。然后,她讲了自己录视频的缘由:她自己的TikTok动态中充斥着风险高且误导性强的金融建议,这令人震惊,她准备纠正这一状况。

“我这里没有什么一夜暴富的计划,但我会给你们提供实用的技巧和知识,帮助你们提高金融素养。”涂继续说道,并提到自己在华尔街的工作经历。她渴望分享她在预算、退休、投资和储蓄方面的最佳实践,“因为我们每个人有权成为富人。”

一开始,她录视频只是为了让同事们看,这样她就不用“一遍又一遍”地解释,这一充满激情项目很快就变成了大项目。涂说,她的第一个视频在发布的当天就火了,到周末就吸引了10万粉丝。

涂很清楚,不仅仅是她的同事需要理财建议,所以她开始在TikTok、Instagram和YouTube上建立自己的品牌,创作人们真正想了解的理财内容。

了解个人理财的“诱导性毒品”

涂承认,向大众传授理财智慧几乎是不可能实现的——个人的需求差别很大。她说:“我不知道罗斯个人退休账户是否对每个人都有意义。”

这就是为什么涂的目标是让她的“剩女”观众自己去寻找答案。涂认为她的内容是个人理财领域的“诱导性毒品”",让人们能够涉足这一领域——每次只需要观看60秒,而不会不知所措。

涂的灵感来自于她在摩根大通的第一任经理,另一位亚裔女性,该经理恰好是她所在楼层的唯一的另一位非白人男性工作人员。涂认为她的经理是她学习理财知识道路上的一张“蓝图”,她了解了从401(k)退休计划到使用企业产品目录来省钱的一切知识。涂说,她现在正在努力成为那么多粉丝的引路人。

涂的最终目标是开启关于金钱和理财的对话。“我们从小到大都被告知,谈论金钱是禁忌。这是不礼貌的、俗气的、粗俗的,等等。”她说。“但富人一直在这样做,而且他们喜欢这么做。他们在乡村俱乐部绵延的绿地上进行这样的谈话。他们在伊比萨岛的私人海滩俱乐部进行这样的谈话。他们在奢华的晚宴上进行这样的谈话……他们从很早以前就开始给对方提建议了。”

涂继续说,如果“普通人”可以在谈论金钱时少些羞耻和批判,多些认可和乐观,我们就会在如何储蓄、预算和投资方面有更好的建议。她指出:“谈论金钱是你能够做的最简单的免费的事情,可以让你更好地管理自己的财富。”

涂认为,消除不平等最可靠的方法之一是分享信息,她下决心长期为大家分享相关信息。

“通过帮助那些没有料到自己会成为富人的人,成为富人。这是对破碎的金融系统的反击。” 涂说。“这就像,游戏规则是这样的。我来教你如何玩。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

薇薇安·涂(Vivian Tu),这位年仅28岁的TikTok博主,账号名称是“你的富婆闺蜜”(Your Rich BFF),知道如何从粉丝能够理解的角度向她的220万粉丝解释私募股权(以金·卡戴珊为例来解释)。

“金·卡戴珊涉足私募股权,将使她成为亿万富翁,而这一切都是用别人的金钱实现的。”涂正视镜头,巧舌如簧,开始了视频录制。“金通过赞助广告、电视节目等方式发家致富,然后通过建立自己的品牌而升级,现在她通过投资别人的品牌而达到了老板级别。”

接着,涂开始了关于私募股权的速成课程——简单介绍了普通合伙人、有限合伙人、佣金和附带收益,整个课程粗制滥造。视频时长59秒。

涂在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示:“私募股权领域信息匮乏,显然,我无法在60秒内面面俱到。但我可以帮助他们,因此现在人们能够更好地理解新闻,更好地阅读头条新闻。”这与她更大的目标是相辅相成的:通过让人们了解他们可能从未想过的解决方案,帮助他们做出明智的财务决策。

正是这种流行文化和学习的融合,让涂在TikTok上如此受欢迎,她幽默、不做作的真实风格让人倍感亲切,可以与观众建立融洽的关系,因此,在她发布第一个视频的一周内吸引了数十万观众。不到两年之后,她和另外两个人组成的团队全职运营这个账号,并出版了一份通讯。

当我告诉她我们要录下此次的Zoom会议时,她要求休息10秒钟好换身衣服,一分半钟后,她穿着一件干净的衬衫,戴着一对耳环回到镜头前,笑着说人们肯定认不出她了。

但是,对于她数以百万计的大部分年轻女粉丝来说,她们一眼就能够认出她来,因为她们收看她的理财建议视频,而她几乎每天都会为被她亲切地称为“剩女”的观众发布理财建议视频。

涂说,直到现在,整个金融服务行业“一直是男性主导、苍白而陈腐的。”她在华尔街开始了职业生涯,因此这一点她再清楚不过了。她表示,在一个潜在市场是面向所有人的行业中,年轻女性、性少数群体和低收入人群往往被排除在外。

考虑到这一点,她设计了“闺蜜”这个绰号。“突然间,你有了一位看起来不像是你父亲的财务顾问的顾问。你有一位看起来像我这样的,可以成为任何人的大学好友的顾问。”她解释道。“我想取悦我的观众,让金融变得更有乐趣,让下一代的富婆闺蜜能够更轻易地谈论金钱。”

金融网红的大生意

和许多在新冠疫情期间崭露头角的网红一样,涂从未料到内容创作可以赚到足够多的钱,以至于成为她的全职工作。“我想告诉你,我有一个邪恶的计划来实现这一切,但我没有。”她说。相反,她说她的职业生涯是从在摩根大通(JPMorgan)担任股票交易员开始的。

2018年,她离开华尔街,寻求更好的个人发展机遇,来到BuzzFeed,在那里,了解她背景的新朋友和同事开始向她寻求理财建议。

但涂认为,财务状况太过个人化,无法提供经验法则之类的建议。“我说:‘我们的个人情况是截然不同的。’就像你有丈夫和两个孩子,住在郊区,而那时,我这个24岁的傻瓜,周末就混迹各大繁华场所,生活方式是绝对不一样的。”

但她收到了很多相同的问题,从医疗保险计划到投资,因此,涂决定凭借自己的金融大师身份,在2021年元旦发布了她的第一个TikTok视频。

“欢迎来到#RichTok。今天是2021年的第一天,我,你们的新富婆闺蜜,依靠自身最好的金融知识技巧和窍门,教你增加财富的新方法。”涂对着镜头说。然后,她讲了自己录视频的缘由:她自己的TikTok动态中充斥着风险高且误导性强的金融建议,这令人震惊,她准备纠正这一状况。

“我这里没有什么一夜暴富的计划,但我会给你们提供实用的技巧和知识,帮助你们提高金融素养。”涂继续说道,并提到自己在华尔街的工作经历。她渴望分享她在预算、退休、投资和储蓄方面的最佳实践,“因为我们每个人有权成为富人。”

一开始,她录视频只是为了让同事们看,这样她就不用“一遍又一遍”地解释,这一充满激情项目很快就变成了大项目。涂说,她的第一个视频在发布的当天就火了,到周末就吸引了10万粉丝。

涂很清楚,不仅仅是她的同事需要理财建议,所以她开始在TikTok、Instagram和YouTube上建立自己的品牌,创作人们真正想了解的理财内容。

了解个人理财的“诱导性毒品”

涂承认,向大众传授理财智慧几乎是不可能实现的——个人的需求差别很大。她说:“我不知道罗斯个人退休账户是否对每个人都有意义。”

这就是为什么涂的目标是让她的“剩女”观众自己去寻找答案。涂认为她的内容是个人理财领域的“诱导性毒品”",让人们能够涉足这一领域——每次只需要观看60秒,而不会不知所措。

涂的灵感来自于她在摩根大通的第一任经理,另一位亚裔女性,该经理恰好是她所在楼层的唯一的另一位非白人男性工作人员。涂认为她的经理是她学习理财知识道路上的一张“蓝图”,她了解了从401(k)退休计划到使用企业产品目录来省钱的一切知识。涂说,她现在正在努力成为那么多粉丝的引路人。

涂的最终目标是开启关于金钱和理财的对话。“我们从小到大都被告知,谈论金钱是禁忌。这是不礼貌的、俗气的、粗俗的,等等。”她说。“但富人一直在这样做,而且他们喜欢这么做。他们在乡村俱乐部绵延的绿地上进行这样的谈话。他们在伊比萨岛的私人海滩俱乐部进行这样的谈话。他们在奢华的晚宴上进行这样的谈话……他们从很早以前就开始给对方提建议了。”

涂继续说,如果“普通人”可以在谈论金钱时少些羞耻和批判,多些认可和乐观,我们就会在如何储蓄、预算和投资方面有更好的建议。她指出:“谈论金钱是你能够做的最简单的免费的事情,可以让你更好地管理自己的财富。”

涂认为,消除不平等最可靠的方法之一是分享信息,她下决心长期为大家分享相关信息。

“通过帮助那些没有料到自己会成为富人的人,成为富人。这是对破碎的金融系统的反击。” 涂说。“这就像,游戏规则是这样的。我来教你如何玩。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Vivian Tu, the 28-year-old TikToker behind Your Rich BFF, knows how to explain private equity to her 2.2 million followers through a lens they can understand: Kim Kardashian.

“Kim K’s foray into private equity is going to make her a multi-billionaire all while using other people’s money,” Tu kicks off the video in her typical front-facing, fast-talking style. “Kim got regular rich through sponsorships, TV, et cetera. She then leveled up by building her own brand, and now she’s hitting boss level by investing in other people’s brands.”

Tu then launches into a quick and dirty crash course on private equity—general partners, limited partners, commissions, carried interest. The video clocks in at 59 seconds.

“I obviously cannot cover the dearth of information available on private equity in 60 seconds,” Tu tells Fortune in an interview. “But people can now digest the news better—read headlines better—because I’m able to help them.” It goes hand in hand with her bigger mission: helping people make smart financial decisions by opening their eyes to solutions they may never have thought about otherwise.

It’s this blend of pop culture and learning that makes Tu so popular on TikTok, where her humor and unpretentious authenticity creates an approachable rapport that reeled in hundreds of thousands of viewers within a week of her first video. Less than two years later, she runs the account full-time with a team of two other people and publishes a newsletter.

When I told her we’d be recording our Zoom, she asked for 10 seconds to change and was back in front of the camera a minute and a half later with a fresh shirt and a pair of earrings, laughing about how she must be unrecognizable.

But she’s more than recognizable to her millions of mostly young, female followers tuning in to her financial advice videos, which she releases nearly every day for an audience she has lovingly dubbed “the leftovers.”

The entire financial services industry, until now, “has been male, pale, and stale,” Tu says. She would know, having kicked off her career on Wall Street. In an industry where the total addressable market is everyone, she says, young women, the LGBTQ community, and low-income people have often been left out.

With that in mind, she devised the BFF moniker. “Suddenly, you have someone who doesn’t look like your dad’s financial advisor. You have somebody who looks like I could be anybody’s college best friend,” she explains. “I want to entertain my audience and turn finance into funance and just make talking about money more accessible for the next generation of rich BFFs.”

The big business of finfluencing

As with many influencers who rose to prominence during the pandemic, Tu never expected content creation could be lucrative enough to become more than a side hustle. “I want to tell you that I had this evil mastermind plan to build this all out, but I didn’t,” she says. Instead, she says she started her career humbly—trading equities at JPMorgan.

She left Wall Street for “the greener pastures” of BuzzFeed in 2018, where new friends and colleagues, knowing her background, began asking for financial advice.

But Tu felt that financial situations are too personal to offer rule-of-thumb recommendations. “I’m like, ‘You guys, like, we’re all very different.’ Like you have a husband and two kids, you live in the suburbs, and at the time, I was this idiot 24-year-old swinging from the chandeliers on the weekends and definitely was not living the same lifestyle.”

But she received so many of the same questions, ranging from health insurance plans to investments, that she decided to lean into her financial guru identity and posted her first TikTok on New Year’s Day 2021.

“Welcome to #RichTok. It’s the first day of 2021, and I, your new rich BFF, am gonna teach you new ways to grow your wealth with my best financial literacy tips and tricks,” she says to the camera by way of introduction. She then launches into her raison d’être: Her own TikTok feed is startlingly full of risky and misleading financial advice, and she’s ready to correct the record.

“I don’t have any get-rich-quick schemes here, but I will help you with practical tips and knowledge on how to level up your financial literacy,” she goes on, referencing her time on Wall Street. She was eager to share her best practices on budgeting, retirement, investing, and saving, “because being rich really should be for all of us.”

What began as a passion project for her coworkers to watch so she didn’t have to explain things “over and over again” quickly turned into something much bigger: Her first video went viral the day it was published, she says, garnering her 100,000 followers by the end of the week.

It was clear to Tu that it wasn’t just her coworkers in need of financial advice, and so she began to build out her brand across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, creating financial content that people actually want to watch.

A “gateway drug” to understanding personal finance

Tu acknowledges that it can be near-impossible to dole out financial wisdom—which varies widely—to the masses. “I’m not going to know whether a Roth IRA makes sense for everyone,” she says.

That’s why she aims to empower her “leftover” audience to find the answers for themselves. She considers her content a “gateway drug” into personal finance that lets people dip a toe into the realm—just for 60 seconds at a time—without getting overwhelmed.

She’s inspired by her first manager at JPMorgan, another Asian woman who happened to be the only other non-white guy on her floor. Tu considered her manager a “blueprint” in her path toward financial literacy, helping her figure out everything from 401(k)s to using the corporate hotel catalog to save money. She says she’s now trying to be that person for so many people.

Tu’s ultimate goal is to open up the dialogue about money and finance. “We’ve been told our entire lives that talking about money is taboo. It’s rude, it’s tacky, it’s gauche, whatever,” she says. “But rich people do it all the time and they love to do it. They do it on the sprawling greens of country clubs. They do it at private beach clubs in Ibiza. They do it at their fancy dinners…They’ve been giving each other tips since the dawn of time.”

If “regular people” can talk about money with less shame and judgment and more acceptance and optimism, she continues, we’ll have better tips on how to save, budget, and invest. “Talking about money is the easiest free thing you can do to be better with your money,” she says.

She believes that one of the surest ways of combating inequality is by sharing information, which she is committed to doing for the long haul.

“By helping people who were not expected to be rich, become rich. It’s fighting back against a broken financial system,” she says. “It’s like, here are the rules of the game. I’m going to teach you how to play.”

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