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Todd Schwartz, CEO & Founder of OppFi - Helping underbanked consumers gain access to credit

Wharton FinTech Podcast

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How Did You Get Into FinTech?

I was working as an analyst in the office in Glencoe, Illinois. I ended up becoming the assistant project manager, construction manager of the site. Learned a lot about management, a lot about people and kind of also learned a lot about development. After that it was 2008 happened, right? 2008. So came back to my to help my dad work on some investments,. It was a very uncertain time, very scary time. The government really didn't step in there. But coming out of that is when I fight is kind of when I started to think about I'm fine about 2011.

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