Betterment founder Jon Stein is stepping down as CEO and a former ViacomCBS exec is taking his place

• Jon Stein, the chief executive and founder of robo-advisor Betterment, is stepping down from his role as CEO, the company said on Tuesday.
• Sarah Kirshbaum Levy, the former COO of ViacomCBS and an advisor to Betterment since October, will assume the CEO role effective immediately. Stein will remain chairman of the board.
• In a blog post announcing the move, Stein wrote that he'd been searching for a successor "for some time" to "help drive the company forward."
• Betterment raised money in June 2017 — a $70 million round that nabbed it an $800 million valuation.
• The startup manages more than $25 billion in assets for roughly 550,000 customers.
• Betterment has also increasingly faced competition from retail stock-trading apps like Robinhood that saw growth surge during the coronavirus.

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