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Tom Burnside

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
281 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

We really do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

The team has been around this space for a very long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

We also have great connections into the financial markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

So we've been able to get the lines of credit, the things we need to do in order to be able to provide the service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

We also, you know, we operate, you know, our platform today services banks and credit unions and, you know, ABS's forward flows as well as our own balance sheet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

So, you know, we have a lot of optionality for our customer and we continue to grow the optionality to be able to make sure

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

that we can aggressively price, that we can give them the right product at the right time with the right amount of money to fulfill whatever it is that they're trying to do at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

You know, we can easily get to a billion, two billion, five with what we have right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

It's a combination of warehouses, AVSs, forward flows, you know, bank commitments, things of that sort that make that happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

But, you know, we know we can get to at least a billion, five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

And the question really is in this market, you know, we're seeing some pullback from some of our competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

And I think, you know, it's an opportunity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

We have the right kind of product and the performance and portfolio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

I think we're going to continue to take advantage of the marketplace where it's at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

You know, it's a challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

This is the challenge for valuation, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

The challenge of valuation is a very fast growing company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

Earnings lag.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

So typically, these are discounted cash flow models and really looking more at a multiple of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
LendingPoint Hits $600m ARR, Will Profit $120m on AI platform for consumer loans

Typically, a lot of times it's either forward or post, but a lot of times they're looking forward now because on a really fast-growing revenue company, they'd probably look more like, in our case, the $600 million than they would look at the $330 million.