Ramtin Naimi
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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Similarly, there's no relevant background to starting an art gallery, apparently.
And everybody suggested I should start a company.
And I think that's terrible advice to give anybody.
You should never advise anybody to start a company.
They should start it on their own or not start one at all.
But I ended up taking that advice and I started a company and I funneled everything I had left over from my hedge fund into that company.
And this is in mid-2014 when marketplace lending was a popular sector.
think companies like Lending Club and Prosper.
And I thought that sector was going to be the next big thing.
The rate of capital going into it, the rate of growth of those companies.
And I thought that if that sector would reach its full potential, there would need to be a liquid secondary market for it because those loans did have maturity periods.
And those maturity periods scaled anywhere from three years to five years to seven years.
And
Banks trade debt like a liquid asset class all the time.
So why wouldn't the individuals trading on these platforms be able to have the same access to liquidity?
So I wanted to build an exchange that allowed debt investors to have that same level of liquidity.
I self-funded this company with everything I made previously.
And I built out a team and went to the regulatory framework of setting up an exchange.
And then 14 months in, when I had a product that I was actually ready to raise external financing for,
that sector had completely collapsed.
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