Shivani Siroya
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2022 by Shivani Siroya · across every show →
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Nov 17, 2022
Siroya charged 5% to 15% interest on her initial personal micro-loans
“It really depended on, you know, what I saw as the tenor of the business. I was really trying to assess how fast did I think that they could actually expand that business, but I would say anywhere between five percent up to about 15%.”
Nov 17, 2022
Siroya personally lent to hundreds to manually test behavioral underwriting
“I decided to become the lender and I lent to SEMA. I started lending to hundreds of other people as well in the community and essentially came up with what I thought the risk calculation would be based on that firsthand or in-person data that I was seeing.”
Nov 17, 2022
Siroya deployed $10,000 of her personal savings to fund early micro-loans
“While I worked at the UN, I was traveling market to market. So I was in a new country every four to five months, and I was lending to people when I was there. And so at that point, I think I was probably about five, 10,000 dollars in.”
Nov 17, 2022
Nov 17, 2022