E29: Educating Specialty Lenders on Scalable Debt, with Rob McGregor of Coromandel Capital

00:00 - Understanding Coromandel's niche in the current market.

04:47 - Optimizing capital stacks and fintech's evolving role.

11:24 - Navigating chaos: Coromandel's founding story.

15:11 - Avoiding common pitfalls for early-stage venture-backed companies.

20:38 - Identifying credit gaps in small business and consumer lending.

25:52 - Educating LPs and the rise of co-investing in private credit.

31:50 - Leveraging technology and AI for scalable niche lending.

37:08 - Could AI disrupt relationship-based, smaller check lending?

39:47 - Where Coromandel sees the most compelling future opportunities.

43:43 - Rob's sports fandom and a surprising personal fact.

45:52 - A powerful book recommendation and the joy of entrepreneurship.

48:59 - A prediction for the next 12 months and podcast wrap-up.

Rob McGregor, Managing Partner, Investments, Coromandel Capital - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmcgregor/

Todd Anderson, Head of Content & Programming, DealCatalyst - https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddanderson19/