#9 → Justin Potts: A Marketplace for Human Potential from Worth

#9 → Justin Potts: A Marketplace for Human Potential

34 minutes Posted Feb 24, 2020 at 9:51 pm.

]: How Justin and Timo have leaned on angels, savings and crowdsourced funding for Avenify

]: Growing up in Texas, building apps and meeting his co-founder in college

]: Why they think nursing students are a perfect fit for their product

]: Joining the Product Hunt mafia

]: RVing across the country to hear students' stories and understand the market

]: Transparency, adverse selection and other common ISA concerns

]: Justin's affinity for a good startup story

0:00

34:01

Download MP3

Share at current time

Show notes

Justin Potts, co-founder and CEO of Avenify, joins Ethan to discuss their innovative lending platform for income share agreements. The marketplace allows top college students to finance their education debt-free, backed by investors who earn a return when they succeed.

Before launching, he and his co-founder Timo spent 3 months RVing to different colleges across the country. Hear how that's impacted the product, why they've largely eschewed the venture route and where they see tremendous opportunities to grow.

[

Worth website - worth.carrd.co

Avenify website - https://avenify.com/

Republic website - https://republic.co/avenify

Justin's Twitter - https://twitter.com/PottsJustin

Recommendations - https://www.notion.so/book-podcast-recommendations-59abba1db1db4fc2b9b9a4e08edb0b24

← See all 23 episodes of Worth