Mike Mahlkow
FounderCo-Founder and CEO at Fastgen (W23). Previously CEO at Blair (S19) where we raised +100M to offer income-based financing options to students. Before that learned how great teams operate at Stripe and Uber.
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Raised a +100M Debt fund to finance thousands of students in the US. Raised 7.5M in Equity from top-tier VCs and multiple Unicorn Founders. Sold all assets in 2022 after regulatory changes in our space. Lots of learnings and many lives we changed for the better :)
Co-Founder and CEO at Fastgen (W23). Previously CEO at Blair (S19) where we raised +100M to offer income-based financing options to students. Before that learned how great teams operate at Stripe and Uber.
Co-Founder at Fastgen (W23). Previously built Blair (S19). Reach out if you're interested in using us david@fastgen.com
Dropped out of college to build Blair (YC S19) where we raised a +100M to build income-based financing solutions for students in the US. At Blair, I led the engineering team to build audit-proof software that moved millions of dollars in student funds on a weekly basis. Two fun facts about me: I built autonomous drones for Porsche and was mining crypto to pay for college (and other things).
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