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Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Episode: James Paris, CEO of Avant - Pioneering Online Credit
Description: Miguel Armaza sits down with James Paris, CEO of Avant, one of the pioneer in online lending dedicated to providing banking solutions for the US middle. Since 2012, Avant has served over 1.5 million customers with over $6.5 billion in loans and 400,000 credit cards.
The company has also raised over $600 million of equity capital from General Atlantic, JP Morgan, Peter Thiel, Ribbit Capital, DFJ, Tiger Global, QED, August Capital, and many more!
We talked about:
- James’ background as a traditional investment banker
- The story behind Avant
- Their decision to spin out Amount, a SaaS business
- His thoughts on the ev...