The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial-services company that provides financial advice for investors through various stock, investing, and personal finance services. The Alexandria, Virginia-based private company was founded in July 1993. The Motley Fool offers a wide range of stock news and analysis at its free website, as well as through a variety of paid investment advice services. The services, many of which combine a traditional paper newsletter with interactive electronic discussion boards and other tools, cover a range of styles from small caps to international stocks, to options, to shorting. The company received the 2014 and 2015 nationwide honor for being "the No. 1 Medium-Sized Company to Work for in the United States" from Glassdoor.com. Its employees are given significant flexibility, for example, the ability to choose their daily shift's start time, in addition to numerous benefits, including traditional benefits such as health insurance as well as unique benefits such as massages and money specifically earmarked for investing in publicly traded companies.