Tom Burnside is CEO of LendingPoint, an AI consumer loan platform. He predicts the company's full-year 2022 net profit to Nathan Latka.
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Burnside: LendingPoint raised an unprecedented $220M in friends and family rounds
“The team we have here raised about two hundred and twenty million dollars of friends and family just really no outside rounds, but friends and family, we raised that over, Yeah. Over about probably four or five different tranches that we re-raced it, but we di…”
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Burnside projects LendingPoint will hit $600M in net revenue for 2022
“And we'll be around six hundred million this year.”
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Burnside: True debt pricing scale requires $500M in annual loan originations
“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.”
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Burnside: LendingPoint loan originations reached $2.1B in 2021
“We grew a 144% year over year, 20 to 21. ... We went to 2.1 billion And 21 which is a, you know, a huge you know, a huge growth, but we slowed down a little bit during COVID in 2020. But then we had, you know, just significance would close a little under a bil…”
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Burnside: LendingPoint generated $330M in net revenue in 2021
“Here in 2021, we were at about three hundred and thirty million. ... This is basically, this is our net revenue, right?”
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Burnside: LendingPoint can reach at least $1.5B in debt capacity
“We can easily get to a billion to 1,000,000,005 with what we have right now. It's a combination of warehouses, ABSs, forward flows, you know, bank commitments, things of that sort that make that happen. But you know, we know we can get to at least a 1,000,000,…”