Santiago Suarez on Building a Great Lending Business

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 1 p.m.

b'Santiago Suarez (@SantiaSua) of Addi joins Erik on this episode. They Discuss:

- Is lending a cyclical business
- Lending as a form of customer acquisition
- What can fintech lending companies learn from Affirm and Square
- How lending in LatAm differs from North America
- How to develop competitive advantages as a lending business in LatAm
- Lessons to learn from scaling very fast
- How to hire early employees
- How to decide your company\\u2019s culture
- How can lending startups compete with banks
- How should lending startups think about balance sheet risk
- How has the lending ecosystem changed in the past decade
- Thoughts on Clearanc
- Common mistakes of finch startups

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