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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

What's interesting about it is we hit about 360 or so.

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

Things were starting to grow.

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

Yeah, the capacity is starting to grow now.

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

We're starting to get in a great place.

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

The models are performing well.

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

We have a couple of different lines of credit now at this point.

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

All of them have been upsized.

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

So now we have access to roughly, I think at that particular point, about $350 to $400 million of capacity at that particular point in time.

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

So life is getting better.

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

Cost of funds are coming down by a couple of points.

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

So those spreads are widening, which is always good.

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

It helps pay bills.

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

It was about 8%.

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

It was about 8% at that point, right?

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

I mean, it wasn't until you really cross over a half a billion dollars of originations a year until pricing really starts to come of real scale.

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

We hit that in 2019.

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

Well, you know, the nice thing about growth is, you know, our models have really led, our AI models from a marketing perspective have really led who we go after and how big that TAM is or that total addressable market.

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

So we knew basically based on our efforts what we needed to do to grow the next $10 million, the next $20 million a month.

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

And so what you're really trying now to do is line up capital, the capital that you need to backstop that advance rate and continue to grow the business.

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

And so that was all kind of coming together at that particular point.