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Graham Fleming and the value of changing direction
He built a mortgage lender, became an early-morning caller, and took charge as Finance of America narrowed its focus. Graham Fleming’s next chapter rests on the equity older homeowners already own.
Mike Cagney keeps finding a shorter route for money
He helped turn a Stanford alumni lending experiment into SoFi. After a contentious exit, Mike Cagney built Figure around the machinery behind loans. His latest venture, Navra, brings the same question back to the screen: why is moving money still so complicated?
The Eight-Week Loan That Became Matthew Covi's Five-Year Fintech Build
A clumsy calculator started the idea. An eight-week home-equity loan sharpened it. Matthew Covi spent five years turning those irritations into Chimney - and then into an acquisition by Array.
Mark Schacknies Keeps Building the Same Machine - Only Faster
Across property booms, platform pivots and two exits, the NFTYDoor co-founder has kept returning to one stubborn question: why does moving money through real estate still require so much friction? His answer is equal parts software, distribution and knowing exactly whom the product must serve.
Angela Tribelli
Angela Tribelli built a career translating complicated products into useful reasons to care. Now the veteran of books, streaming and financial media is taking on a harder brief: making home equity legible as a retirement tool.
Sadi Khan
Sadi Khan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aven, a San Francisco-based fintech unicorn valued at $2.2 billion that created the world's first home equity-backed credit card. A University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate, Khan spent over a decade at Facebook leading product for Internet.org, Maps, Search, and Ads before co-founding Aven in 2019. Aven has since issued over $3 billion in credit lines, saved consumers more than $215 million in interest, and raised $252 million in total funding. Known for his maximally rational decision-making style and habit of wearing the same outfit every day to reduce cognitive load, Khan aims to build America's first 'machine banking' platform and democratize access to home equity for millions of homeowners.