The story behind pip

I didn’t understand how money works until I was 30. My kids are learning it at 5.

I never saw the value of a monthly budget. I had no idea what consistent, long-term investing could become. My kids get the head start I never had, with pip. Real money, real choices, and skills that compound for life.

Read the story

Pick a company. Learn its story. Think like an owner.

“Every birthday, I spread the logos across the kitchen table.”

McDonald’s. Disney. Nike. Brands my kids knew before they could spell them. They’d each pick three favorites, and I’d buy them inside my TFSA. Three little slices of real companies, owned by kids.

They got the magic part: I own a piece of this. If it grows, my money grows.

But I knew I was barely scratching the surface. They loved these companies. I wanted to show them what made one worth owning and another not. But you can’t hand a five-year-old a balance sheet or play them a quarterly earnings call. All I had was logos and small talk, and their stocks sat buried in my account, invisible to the kids who owned them.

So I built what I wished I’d had: cards that teach kids to think like owners. Real companies, real numbers, straight answers. And a dashboard where their money lives out in the open.

My kids don’t just pick companies anymore. They understand them. That’s the difference between owning a logo and thinking like an owner.

A small rhythm that keeps ownership alive.

Open a step and try it right where you are. Each demo keeps the same money moving through the family loop.

Start with work that creates value.

Check off a few sample gigs. With pip, a parent verifies the work before the earnings reach a kid's balance.

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In the real tool: parents shortlist gigs and set the price. Kids choose, do the work and mark it complete; parents approve the earnings.

The world they unlock

A company becomes a character worth growing with.

The egg helps a kid understand the company before they choose. If they become an owner, it hatches into a character that grows through patience and learning — never through trading or chasing a stock price.

Roblox

This is the card that hatches into the characters below.

A blue Roblox-inspired egg evolving into three increasingly powerful stone world-builder characters

Every company opens a different world. Ownership makes it theirs.

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Meet the egg cards

Fifty companies. One key metric each. A much better conversation.

the pip 50: one egg card for every company your kids already know.

Print the cards free at home. Each one turns real company financials into a clear, kid-friendly decision tool — without pretending there is one “right” pick.

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