Note: Today, Charles Schwab Corporation rolled out a new automated investment service, designed to directly compete with my company, Wealthfront. This post is intended as a personal reflection, as the CEO of a new company, on what can lead a great company so far astray from its founding values. Source: Corbis Images When you grow up in Silicon Valley, you grow up with stories about legendary entrepreneurs, the businesses they built and the industries they changed. Chuck Schwab is an icon for founding a firm that would be different than Wall Street. Different from its arch-enemy, Merrill Lynch. A firm that would be focused on the client and look out for the little guy. When I joined Wealthfront, I held up Charles Schwab as an example of a

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