About 80% of employers offering a 401(k) also offer a Roth option — switching to it eliminates required minimum distributions and allows tax-free growth for heirs.
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Jeff and his wife are 45 and 46, earning $330,000, out of debt except the house, and watching their 401(k) compound toward what Dave's calculator shows will be an enormous sum. His concern: required minimum distributions at 73 will force taxable withdrawals he doesn't want. Dave walks him through the solution in three steps: first, check if the employer offers a Roth 401(k) (likely, since 80% of companies do) and switch all future contributions there; second, pay off the house; third, use the cash flow freed by the eliminated mortgage payment to convert chunks of the traditional 401(k) to Roth, paying the tax bill out of pocket without touching the converted amount. Doing this in three or four chunks over several years eliminates the RMD problem entirely. Bonus: Roth accounts pass to heirs income-tax-free with no mandatory 10-year withdrawal window, unlike inherited traditional IRAs under the Biden-era SECURE Act update.
Despite months of meticulous preparation, Starter Story's initial launch attracted zero users — a humbling reminder that building alone guarantees nothing.
A single Reddit link post quickly drove 100 visitors to the Starter Story website, igniting the founder's belief in social traffic.
After reformatting content as a native self-post (no direct link spam), the post exploded with hundreds of upvotes and thousands of readers.
By posting again and again with the native-content strategy, the founder's posts repeatedly hit Reddit's front page, reaching millions of readers.
Before Reddit banned his domain, the founder converted his viral traffic into an email list of tens of thousands — a self-owned audience independent of Reddit.
Redditors eventually organized a petition to ban starterstory.com posts, effectively ending the Reddit growth channel — but the email list was already built.
The Reddit attention strategy ultimately served as the foundation for a million-dollar business, proving that free distribution channels can replace paid marketing.
The key tactic was keeping content fully on-platform (no direct link spam), then adding a small link at the post's end for users who wanted more.
With a thriving email list and a self-owned audience, the founder quit his six-figure New York City salary job to go all-in on Starter Story.
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