Goat Academy tops 26,000 students as Trustpilot score hits 4.6

Goat Academy says it welcomed its 26,000th student this week, while its Trustpilot rating reached 4.6 and its YouTube audience neared 600,000 subscribers. The milestone underscores growing demand for Felix Prehn’s stock-market coaching as he pursues a goal of teaching 1 million people.

Why it matters: - Goat Academy’s growth signals demand for hands-on stock-market education aimed at everyday investors. - The 4.6 Trustpilot score and 26,000-student milestone suggest the coaching model is resonating with users. - Felix Prehn’s longer-term goal is to teach 1 million people the stock market, making each new student part of a larger scale-up effort.

What happened: - Goat Academy welcomed its 26,000th student this week. - The program’s Trustpilot score reached 4.6. - Prehn’s YouTube channel is nearing 600,000 subscribers. - Goat Academy says its method centers on the Wall Street Protocol.

The details: - Each student gets a personal coach. - Students can book one-on-one sessions through the website at a chosen time. - Live daily Zoom lectures fill the rest of the course, and recordings remain available afterward. - The curriculum focuses on where to place a stop-loss, how large a position should be, and when to exit before a trade. - Emotional control is a core goal of the program. - Each student is also paired with a Customer Success Manager who checks in daily and helps with group sessions. - Trustpilot’s summary of 171 reviews said reviewers praised the knowledgeable and supportive staff, practical structure and clear explanations. - Goat Academy was founded in 2020. - Felix Prehn is an economist and former investment banker who heads the school. - The coaching team includes former hedge fund managers, NASDAQ market makers and institutional portfolio managers. - Coaches have backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Société Générale. - The team has more than 150 years of institutional experience.

Between the lines: - The company is positioning itself as a support-heavy alternative to self-directed trading education. - Prehn’s message blends market caution with access, using free content on YouTube, podcasts and company websites to widen the funnel. - Prehn said his goal is to help 1 million people achieve financial freedom. - Prehn also said he is not a registered financial advisor and framed his role as sharing knowledge from Wall Street mentors and years in the markets.

What’s next: - Goat Academy will need to keep converting free content followers into paying students if it wants to keep scaling. - The 1 million-student goal sets a much larger benchmark for future growth. - Continued Trustpilot momentum and audience growth on YouTube could be key indicators of whether the model keeps expanding.

The bottom line: - Goat Academy is turning coaching, daily support and free educational content into a growing stock-market training business with a much bigger ambition behind it.