J.D. Roth

Founder of GetRichSlowly.org, J.D. Roth is an accidental personal-finance expert, a regular guy who found himself deep in debt. After deciding to turn his life around, he read everything he could about money and finance. In 2006, he started the award-winning website Get Rich Slowly, which TIME.com named a Best Blog of 2011. Money Magazine has also called Get Rich Slowly the Web's most inspiring personal-finance blog. J.D. Roth leads the discussion at Get Rich Slowly, which has grown into an active community with over 600,000 monthly readers who share ideas on how to improve their financial lives. J.D. lives with his wife and four cats in a hundred-year-old house in Portland, Oregon. He’s the author of Your Money: The Missing Manual.