Welcome to the Car Dealership Guy Podcast. In this episode, I'm speaking with Sanjiv Yajnik, President of Financial Services at Capital One where we discuss: Secrets of the #1 auto lender, How to scale to 100M customers, What's next for car ownership, and much more.

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:28) - Sanjiv’s background and career

(00:10:35) - How were you able to scale to this size?

(00:16:10)- How can we solve the affordability crisis?

(00:21:39) - The Navigator product

(00:25:21) - What trends are you focused on?

(00:29:12) - What’s your vision for this “card” for dealers?

(00:35:42) - How do you come up with innovative ideas?

(00:42:46) - What are you seeing in terms of buying signals from the consumer?

(00:45:37) - What’s next for CapitalOne?

(00:53:32) - Where do you see the auto industry trending?

(01:00:57) - Closing thoughts

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