LendingClub

also referred to as: lending club

15 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2013 by Fred Wilson · said 38 times in 5 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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brought up most by Renaud Laplanche (20), Rebecca Lynn (7), Carl Angel (5), Matt Turck (4), Zach Perret (2)

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Everything said about LendingClub, oldest first

Dec 19, 2013 positive
Assertion Supported
Fred Wilson: LendingClub operates at one-third the cost of traditional lenders
“Lending Club can do that at Maybe a third of the cost of what a traditional lender can do it at.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 30:11 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
May 29, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club detects higher mobile loan fraud on Android than Apple
“We've seen a higher fraud rate in terms of mobile OS with Android than Apple.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 11:13 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Laplanche: Lending Club averages 12.5% borrower rates and 8% investor returns
“So LendingClub, in contrast, as an average interest rate just over 12 and a half percent and on, on the so that's the value to borrowers and as return on average close to eight percent net return after fees and after credit losses to investors.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 4:29 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club receives about 9,000 loan applications daily
“There's about nine, 9000 applications coming to us during that day.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 7:31 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 bullish
Assertion Supported
Laplanche: Lending Club's expense ratio is under 2% vs banks' 5-7%
“That ratio for most banks is between five and seven percent, so it's really all operating costs divided by total loans outstanding, that's between five and seven percent. The same metric at Lending Club is less than two percent, and it's coming down quarter af…”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 1:22 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 positive
Disclosure
Laplanche: Lending Club takes no balance sheet risk on loans
“We don't take a balance sheet risk. The, all the capital comes from the from the investors.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 0:55 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club faces under 10 fraudulent applications daily, totaling $140,000
“It's less than 10 loans out of a population of 9000. That happens every day, and so it's, it is a needle in a haystack, ah, but it is really material because there's sort of 10 or so fraudulent loan applications represent a total of about 140,000 dollars.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 8:03 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 neutral
Disclosure
Laplanche: Lending Club caps annual growth at 150% to manage risk
“So we've been controlling growth to a place where it's in between hundred and 150%. We could be growing faster based on supply and demand available to us but we've chosen to Sort of grow at the current pace as a matter of sort of controlling risk and especiall…”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 5:35 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club sees higher loan fraud rates on mobile than PC
“We, we've seen a much higher fraud rate on mobile and tablet than on PC and laptop.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 10:47 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club sees higher loan fraud rates at night
“We have a lot more fraudulent application at night.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 8:41 Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014
Insight
Laplanche: Low fintech costs and cheap bank capital reduce credit costs
“It's really the best of both worlds where platforms like us, like ours, have a low cost of operation, and the banks have a low cost of capital, and when you put these two together, you can really drive down the cost of credit for consumers and businesses.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 10:09 Panel Discussion // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 neutral
Assertion Supported
Laplanche: Lending Club consumer rates average around 12.5 percent
“Our rates start, ah, in the single digit, so it's six, six and a half percent for consumers, 5.9 for businesses, ah, and the average is in the low teens, so about 12, 12 and a half percent.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 13:36 Panel Discussion // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 29, 2014 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Laplanche: Lending Club is not sensitive to rising interest rates
“So yeah, as far as we're concerned then, we don't think we're rate sensitive at all.”
Renaud Laplanche May 29, 2014 ▶ 15:29 Panel Discussion // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jul 13, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynn: LendingClub founder demanded she take board seat before signing term sheet
“And when we handed him the term sheet, he's like, I'll sign it, but only if Rebecca's the board member.”
Rebecca Lynn Jul 13, 2017 ▶ 17:09 VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Jul 13, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lending Club had 20 employees and $100K in loans at evaluation
“He probably had 20 people at the company at that point in time, done, you know, a hundred thousand-ish, you know, dollars of loans.”
Rebecca Lynn Jul 13, 2017 ▶ 5:18 VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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