How Lauren Como Turned Her Passion for Personal Finance Blogging into a $318k Side Business
And why she intends to keep her day job
If you spend enough time online, it doesn’t take long until you read stories of people leveraging the scale of the internet to build highly profitable businesses.
What’s interesting is that many of these people have successful day jobs. Rather than trying to “build an online empire and escape the 9–5” they see the opportunity provided by the internet as a way to work differently — to take on new challenges, learn new things, and in some cases, earn outsized returns.
Wanting to understand how people are doing this and why, I sat down with Lauren Como — who balances a successful career in cybersecurity with a thriving side business, writing about personal finance.
Hello, who are you and what side business did you start?
Hey, I’m Lauren Como, and since 2021 I’ve been writing about personal finance and investing on Medium.
How did you come up with the idea?
One of the first articles I wrote about was on how I built a net worth of $500,000 before the age of 30. I achieved this net worth in a very “normal” way — being…
