I'm betting the company with the best models will win in credit, especially if they trust them to run. Time will tell.
Paul Gu
199 posts
Co-founder @Upstart, dad of 3, Thiel Fellow x Yale dropout, grateful 🇺🇸. Number cruncher with paleo priors.
Joined October 2011
- Replying to @AustenI was in the first class and admit I wasn’t sure at first it would be. But now think the answer is clearly yes.
- .@Upstart we are thrilled to be supporting @talamobile in expanding credit access to the most underserved billion+ people in the world.
- Much much left to do, but grateful to my co-founders @davegirouard, Anna and the whole @Upstart team for the past 8.5 years!Today we are excited and proud to share that Upstart is now a public company! With this major milestone, we continue Upstart's mission to enable effortless credit based on true risk. #NasdaqListed #UpstartIPO #TeamUpstart
- Why can’t you live where you want, work with the very best, AND spend high quality time bonding and collaborating with your team? Join us!Three months ago, we announced @upstart would be a hybrid company. Today, we're announcing Upstart is "digital first", where most employees can live and work anywhere in the US. Here's why we changed our minds and what "digital first" means to us: upstart.com/blog/upstart-p…
- No better way to make the risks and rewards of AI adoption real than underwriting it with insurance. Congrats @RuneKvistReplying to @RuneKvistWe raised a $15M seed round in June for the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, led by @natfriedman via NFDG, along with @emergencecap, @terraincap We certify and insure AI agents. Agent unicorns like @ada_cx, @cognition_labs work with us to earn customer confidence
- One of the biggest money savers ever invented. Arbitrage for main street.1/ We started Roam to help homebuyers wind back the clock on rates and purchase a home with a 2% mortgage included. 8 months later — rates are still north of 7.5% and housing is still out of reach for 75 million Americans. Here’s our biggest update yet 🧵
- I originally wrote this intro to lending as onboarding material for my team @Upstart. Now available on our blog for any industry nerds out there!
- .@v_maini is one of the most comprehensive thinkers I know & amazing writer/teacher. He put a lot into writing this. medium.com/machine-learni…
- Replying to @DanielSLoeb1 @Ayaan and 5 others
- Replying to @DataRepublicanThanks for your great work at Upstart. Best of luck 🇺🇸
- Replying to @ch402Thanks for doing this Chris - the world needs more applied research like this, and even more so on this topic!








