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It all started with chocolate pudding. When they were young, brothers David and Tom Gardner learned about stocks and the business world from their father at the supermarket. Dad, a lawyer and economist, would tell them, "See that pudding? We own the company that makes it! Every time someone buys that pudding, it s good for our company. So go get some more!" The lesson stuck. The brothers founded the world s premier multimedia financial education company, The Motley Fool. The company s mission has remained the same since its inception: to educate, enrich, and amuse individual investors around the world. In 1994, a partnership with America Online allowed The Motley Fool to come to life online. Fool.com was launched on the World Wide Web soon thereafter. The brothers quickly established the "Fool Portfolio" of stocks, funded with their own money, and Fools around the world were invited to learn from the Gardners investing successes and mistakes. The Fool Portfolio (renamed the "Rule Breaker Portfolio") was celebrated for its dramatic gains until its closure in March 2003. Currently, The Motley Fool offers seven monthly investment newsletters to their members, covering a variety of investing styles - Motley Fool Hidden Gems, Motley Fool Rule Breakers, Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement, Motley Fool Inside Value, Motley Fool Champion Funds, Motley Fool Income Investor, and Motley Fool Stock Advisor. Since 1996, Tom and David, in partnership with Simon and Schuster, have published eight books, including The Motley Fool s Money After 40, The Motley Fool s What To Do with Your Money Now, The Motley Fool Investment Guide, The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens, and You Have More Than You Think. Each Fool book has climbed to Business s bestseller list. This spawned a line of self-published titles under the Fool Publishing label. But wait - there s more! The Fool s nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column debuted in 1997 and now appears in more than 200 papers. The Motley Fool Radio Show began broadcasting in 1998 and is now nationally syndicated by NPR on more than 100 stations. Guests on the eclectic talk show have included Amazon.com s CEO Jeff Bezos, Vice President Dick Cheney, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, actor & economist Ben Stein, and Ed McMahon. In addition, the brothers Gardner appear frequently on television and at investor conferences around the nation - as do many of their fellow Fool staffers.
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