Psycho-founders, with Matt Harris (Founder of Bloom Credit)

Today, I'm sharing three courses with my friend Matt Harris, founder of the fintech startup, Bloom Credit. We'll talk through his unique market insights (underwriting, credit scores, what VCs get wrong about fintech), mutual founder therapy (what changes in a founder's brain when they're on VC funding), and his strengths and weaknesses (fueled by conversations I had with his founder friends).

Matt founded Bloom Credit in 2016, raising some $20M from Resolute Ventures, Commerce Ventures, and Slow Ventures to build an API platform for credit products. But Matt's also one of those CEOs who made the choice to pass the baton, stepping out of the CEO role in 2021 to let the team bloom in a different direction.

Now, he's an active angel investor (in companies like TrueAccord, Karat, and Smile ID) and an executive coach. Through TwentySeven Nine, he's working with VC-backed founders who have raised from firms like a16z, Index, First Round, and Y Combinator, helping them with everything from fundraising + OKRs to combatting what he calls founder burnout.

His mission is to make the founder journey easier and more rewarding for VC-backed startups.

And mine? To have deeper conversations with people trying to change the way the earth spins -- to follow my own curiosity, and help me and you better understand how the world works and how to move with more intention. I'm Sherveen Mashayekhi, founder and CEO of venture-backed Free Agency, and I'm an angel investor & startup super-nerd.

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