Business Finance Episodes
May 3, 2024
Prosper Marketplace and Fintech Innovation. Talking with CEO David Kimball
Prosper was the first peer to peer lender in the US and has expanded its’ product offering and grown to 2million members and $27billion lent since inception.
Nov. 11, 2023
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative. Talking with Professor Emeritus, Jerry Porras.
The SLEI program enables Latino entrepreneurs whose companies have at least $1million annual sales, to scale up using research and a robust ecosystem.
Oct. 14, 2023
Elon Musk's $13 billion debt bomb versus Wall Street. The state of play with the Banks. Talking with William D. Cohan of PUCK News.
X/Twitter owes $13 billion to a syndicate of 7 banks who are eager to sell the loan to private investors and get it off their books. Will Musk buy the debt or will distressed debt funds buy it ?
Oct. 5, 2023
Talking with Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chairwoman of the EXIM Bank of the United States.
Exim Bank is playing a growing role in financing the export drive of US small business. In California alone, they have 650 exporter clients who ship overseas, product worth $14 billion. --- Send in a voice message: https://p…
March 22, 2023
Guaranteeing Bank Deposits: Talking with Professor Anat Admati of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank caused regulators to act on uninsured bank deposits, above the $250,000 FDIC cap.