PitchIt Podcast 79: Danielle Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO, Rightfoot
01/28/23 • 45 min
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot.
Rightfoot enables developers to add debt repayment to any application.
Founding stories are always unique, but Dani and Rightfoot are thus far the most interesting to date. They moved into a retirement home to test out their initial idea. Yup, a retirement home, and only one out of 150 said yes.
The idea was that high school kids could make good money by helping retirees with technical tasks like coding; the money would then go into a 529 education account.
While the initial idea didn’t pan out, it helped them to figure out their current business and gave them a life experience like no other. Dani is one of the most resourceful founders I’ve met thus far; just wait until you hear the vacation van story.
Dani and I also discussed the core problems associated with debt repayment, how debt impacts households, her time in Southeast Asia, raising capital, and much more.
If you want to sponsor an episode, come on as a guest, or sponsor one of our many digital or in-person offerings, please reach out anytime at [email protected].
Without further ado, Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot. I hope you enjoy the show.
Episode highlights include
- Dani’s journey to Rightfoot
- Rightfoot’s founding story
- Dani’s time at IBM in SE Asia
- How Rightfoot’s API works
- Embedded finance
- Financial Inclusion
- The barriers women-led startups face raising capital
- Tips on raising capital
- Recommended reading - The Messenger by Markus Zusak
- And much more...
Connect with Danielle on LinkedIn
Connect with PitchIt:
- Tweet me @ToddFintech
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous PitchIt episodes
- Email me at [email protected]
Until next time.
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot.
Rightfoot enables developers to add debt repayment to any application.
Founding stories are always unique, but Dani and Rightfoot are thus far the most interesting to date. They moved into a retirement home to test out their initial idea. Yup, a retirement home, and only one out of 150 said yes.
The idea was that high school kids could make good money by helping retirees with technical tasks like coding; the money would then go into a 529 education account.
While the initial idea didn’t pan out, it helped them to figure out their current business and gave them a life experience like no other. Dani is one of the most resourceful founders I’ve met thus far; just wait until you hear the vacation van story.
Dani and I also discussed the core problems associated with debt repayment, how debt impacts households, her time in Southeast Asia, raising capital, and much more.
If you want to sponsor an episode, come on as a guest, or sponsor one of our many digital or in-person offerings, please reach out anytime at [email protected].
Without further ado, Dani Pensack, Co-Founder & CEO of Rightfoot. I hope you enjoy the show.
Episode highlights include
- Dani’s journey to Rightfoot
- Rightfoot’s founding story
- Dani’s time at IBM in SE Asia
- How Rightfoot’s API works
- Embedded finance
- Financial Inclusion
- The barriers women-led startups face raising capital
- Tips on raising capital
- Recommended reading - The Messenger by Markus Zusak
- And much more...
Connect with Danielle on LinkedIn
Connect with PitchIt:
- Tweet me @ToddFintech
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous PitchIt episodes
- Email me at [email protected]
Until next time.
Previous Episode
Fintech Nexus News Show: January 26, 2023
On today's show with Todd Anderson and special guest Nicole Casperson we discussed big fintech news from Stripe, Zelle®, Silvergate Bank, Farmington State Bank, Amazon, Foro, Ron Shevlin, French Hill, Gemini, Bolt and more.
Next Episode
Fintech One-on-One #409: Eddie Oistacher of Peach Finance
The right lending infrastructure is what allows lenders to launch new products easily, to adapt products to changing economic conditions or to start an entirely new lending operation.
My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Eddie Oistacher, the CEO and Co-Founder of Peach Finance. Incubated inside Affirm, Peach has created a new kind of lending infrastructure that is adaptive and flexible and can scale for virtually any lending product (outside of mortgage).
In this podcast you will learn:
- The founding story of Peach.
- How Max Levchin, the CEO of Affirm, supported new companies like Peach.
- The biggest challenges for lenders today.
- How Eddie describes Peach and where they sit in the technology stack.
- What an Adaptive Core is and why it is important.
- The different lending verticals they support.
- Type types of companies that use their software.
- What fintechs should be looking for when launching a new lending program.
- How lenders should think about loan servicing given a possible recession this year.
- What launching right before the pandemic was like.
- How their self-service migration tool works and why it is a big deal for lenders.
- What is next for Peach.
Connect with Eddie on LinkedIn
Connect with Fintech One-on-One:
- Tweet me @PeterRenton
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
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