Moving Average Inc.

Books by John M. P. Knox

Two short books written from experience: one on building personal wealth alongside a business, one on landing and using an engineering internship.

Book One

Wealth for Founders

A personal wealth guide for business owners.

Building a successful company doesn't automatically make you wealthy. Most founders take a low salary, sink everything back into the business, and end up with their net worth concentrated in a single illiquid asset — the business itself. An exit might fix it, but often it doesn't. Businesses don't magically transform into a wire transfer.

Wealth for Founders came out of my personal experience talking to hundreds of founders and realizing how many ended up with disappointing, if not catastrophic, outcomes after pouring a decade into the business. It covers the founder-specific problems that generic personal-finance books skip: concentration risk, paying yourself a real salary, building six-to-twelve months of runway outside the business, the retirement accounts small business owners can use (SEP-IRAs, Solo 401(k)s), and why a 1% fee difference compounds to 23% less wealth over 25 years.

"BOOM — why is this not SO MUCH more talked about?"
— Kevin Unkrich, Founder of qz.dev
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Book Two

Conquering Your Engineering Internship

Planning, getting, and making the most of an internship or co-op.

Many internship guides are written for business students and translate poorly to engineering. This one is written for the technical student who wants real-world experience, a resume line they can actually defend in interviews, and an offer at the end — and would rather not waste three months on odd jobs.

Covers four things in 112 pages: landing the position with unconventional methods, acing technical interviews when you don't know all the answers, the mistakes interns make on day one, and how to turn the assignment into something worth talking about in your next interview.

"Never a let down — useful information from writing your resume to the last day of your internship. I personally enjoyed the relevant anecdotes and section on becoming an outstanding intern."
— Amazon reviewer
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