#1530 GroupMe founder on his $80M exit (and why he’s building his new company differently)

I’m so excited about today’s guest. Years ago he created a software that allowed a group of people to talk to one another over text. It was called GroupMe and it felt like as soon as I even heard about the company it was sold in a life-changing exit. I always admired how they did it. Well, today we have the founder of GroupMe, Jared Hecht. He has a new company now and the thing I love about it is how he started it. He understood a pain point and started doing research. But he researched it in a way that I think most founders would be too afraid to do. He started going door to door and asking business owners about their freaking financial situation. And they told him! That’s how he built his business. He’s here to tell us how he did it. Jared Hecht is the founder of Fundera which helps business owners understand their creditworthiness and get loans and other financial solutions.

Jared Hecht is the founder of Fundera which helps business owners understand their creditworthiness and get loans and other financial solutions.

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