Lend Academy Podcast

There are many different loan choices out there today for small business owners. There are short term loans, merchant cash advances, asset-backed loans, equipment finance loans, SBA loans and many others. To help entrepreneurs sort through this myriad of loan choices and make the right financing decision is Lendio’s mission. Brock Blake is the CEO […] The post Podcast 33: Brock Blake of Lendio on Small Business Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

Cross River Bank is methodically building an integral place for themselves in the online lending ecosystem. They have become the goto bank for all new marketplace lending platforms. In this episode I talk with Cross River Bank founder and CEO Gilles Gade along with the their VP of Lending Adam Goller. We explore exactly how a […] The post Podcast 32: Cross River Bank on Compliance and Helping Lending Platforms Grow appeared first on Lend Academy.

Aaron Vermut, the CEO of Prosper, has presided over one of the most remarkable turnarounds in this industry’s short history. I have been wanting to get him on the podcast for some time and we were finally able to have a chat last week. In this extended interview he talks about the challenges of building […] The post Podcast 31: Aaron Vermut of Prosper appeared first on Lend Academy.

Rohit Arora, the CEO and Co-Founder of Biz2Credit has been quietly building one of the leading small business lending platforms in this country. If you haven’t heard their name much I can assure you that is going to change very soon. They have issued over $1.2 billion in small business loans to date and will […] The post Podcast 30: Rohit Arora of Biz2Credit on Small Business Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

Scott Langmack has been around P2P lending almost since the beginning. He first met Lending Club founder and CEO, Renaud Laplanche, back in 2007 and he became one of the largest investors on the platform as well as an equity investor in 2008. He started the very first fund in the space back in 2009 […] The post Podcast 29: Scott Langmack on the Evolution of P2P Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

This episode of the Lend Academy Podcast features Matt Burton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Orchard. Orchard has quickly become one of the leading companies in the marketplace lending space, developing the ecosystem that connects institutional investors with platforms quickly and easily. Because Matt talks to both platforms and investors on a daily basis he has a […] The post Podcast 28: Matt Burton of Orchard Platform appeared first on Lend Academy.

Cormac Leech is our first ever repeat guest on the Lend Academy Podcast, he was also our featured guest on Podcast 8 back in March. Cormac is one of the only investment analysts who is dedicated to the peer to peer lending space and he is also one of the true thought leaders in our industry. […] The post Podcast 27: Cormac Leech of Liberum Capital appeared first on Lend Academy.

Brendan Ross is the founder and president of Direct Lending Investments which is the general partner of a fund focused on high-yield, short term small business loans. I am an early investor in Brendan’s fund and last year I profiled Brendan’s fund. His fund has grown a great deal since its launch almost two years […] The post Podcast 26: Brendan Ross of Direct Lending Investments appeared first on Lend Academy.

Jared Hecht and Brayden McCarthy are two of the smartest young minds in our industry. They are both executives at Fundera; Jared is the CEO and Co-Founder and Brayden is the Head of Strategy and Policy. Fundera is a platform that helps small business owners evaluate different loan options by providing easy access to these options […] The post Podcast 25: Jared Hecht and Brayden McCarthy of Fundera on the Small Business Lending Problem appeared first on Lend Academy.

In this edition of the Lend Academy Podcast we have someone quite a bit different than our typical guest. Jonathan Morris is a banker, but he is not your conservative banker who works at a big bank, he is very much an innovative and forward thinking banker. His bank, Titan Bank, was one of the […] The post Podcast 24: Jonathan Morris of Titan Bank on the Banking Perspective appeared first on Lend Academy.

For many years the p2p lending industry in this country has been dominated by two platforms: Lending Club and Prosper. Dave Girouard, the CEO and Co-Founder of Upstart and guest on this edition of the podcast, wants to change that. Upstart began with a unique lending idea called Income Sharing Agreements but earlier this year they […] The post Podcast 23: Dave Girouard CEO and Co-Founder of Upstart appeared first on Lend Academy.

SoFi has been somewhat of a quiet achiever in the p2p lending industry. But they have been breaking a lot of new ground over the past few months. In this edition of the Lend Academy Podcast I talk with Mike Cagney, the co-founder and CEO of SoFi. I came away from this interview so impressed […] The post Podcast 22: Mike Cagney of SoFi on Changing the Game appeared first on Lend Academy.

We have a different type of guest in this episode of the Lend Academy Podcast. Tracy Alloway is a journalist based in New York who covers the banking industry for the Financial Times, the leading UK financial newspaper. She has also taken a keen interest in the peer to peer lending industry in this country […] The post Podcast 21: Tracy Alloway of the Financial Times on Covering the P2P Lending Industry appeared first on Lend Academy.

We have a very special guest for the 20th edition of the Lend Academy Podcast: Renaud Laplanche, the CEO and founder of Lending Club. I first met Renaud in the spring of 2011 just after Lending Club moved from Redwood City to downtown San Francisco. In those days Lending Club had about 50 people and […] The post Podcast 20: Renaud Laplanche, CEO and Founder of Lending Club appeared first on Lend Academy.

Today, p2p investors have many options when it comes to analyzing loan performance. One of these options is PeerCube which was founded by Anil Gupta, a software engineer with a background in data analytics. In this latest edition of the Lend Academy Podcast I talk with Anil about PeerCube and the importance of data analysis […] The post Podcast 19: Anil Gupta of PeerCube on P2P Lending Analysis appeared first on Lend Academy.

Without question real estate is one of the hottest sectors in marketplace lending right now. We have gone from just a couple of platforms two years ago to nearly 100 today. And more seem to be launching every week. At the forefront of this movement is Realty Mogul. It was co-founded by Jilliene Helman less […] The post Podcast 18: Jilliene Helman of Realty Mogul on Real Estate Investing appeared first on Lend Academy.

A lot has been written about small businesses and their lack of access to capital. This was exacerbated by the financial crisis but it is something that many small businesses have struggled with for a long time. Traditionally there have been two primary sources of outside capital for a small business: a bank loan and […] The post Podcast 17: Noah Breslow of OnDeck on Small Business Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

Session 16 of the Lend Academy Podcast features Charles Moldow, a partner at the venture capital firm Foundation Capital. His firm has made several equity investments in the p2p lending industry, the most notable of which is their investment in Lending Club last year alongside Google. Moldow’s presentation at LendIt 2014 was one of the […] The post Podcast 16: Charles Moldow Discusses the $1 Trillion Marketplace Lending Opportunity appeared first on Lend Academy.

Emmanuel Marot is the co-founder and president at LendingRobot. His company has created an investing tool of the same name that helps individual investors automate their investing on the Lending Club and Prosper platforms. LendingRobot uses the API of both platforms to execute loan orders as soon as new loans are added to the respective […] The post Podcast 15: Emmanuel Marot with LendingRobot appeared first on Lend Academy.

We are just three days away from the start of LendIt 2014. And it is shaping up to be great conference. As of this writing we have around 870 people signed up, so by the time game day comes around there should be well over 900 people attending LendIt 2014. Two Packed Days of Educational […] The post LendIt 2014 Kicks off on Sunday Night appeared first on Lend Academy.