From the ashes of COVID school closures, this Gen Z CEO built a thriving student-loan app

Dec 17 2022 by Fast Company

Sparrow’s Harrison Hochman says investors were initially wary of his youth: “When you’re in fintech, you can’t move fast and break things.”

As a junior at Stanford, Harrison Hochman was sent home because of COVID. Many of his friends were scrambling to pay tuition because their family’s incomes had taken a hit. Yet it was easier to book a plane ticket home than to find a private loan. Hochman and two cofounders, Griffin Morris and Daniel Kahn, started Sparrow, a service that...

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