There is more than one trillion dollars of student debt in the U.S. today, making student loan debt the second largest amount of debt, second only to the $8.5 trillion owed in mortgages. SoFi is not your traditional finance company — not by a long shot. Dan Macklin, VP of Community and Member Success, co-founded SoFi at Stanford with CEO Mike Cagney as well as James Finnigan and Ian Brady. Macklin and I sat down recently to discuss the future of SoFi and his unusual and effective community growth tactics. It’s great that other competitors are coming into the market because it validates the fact that this is a real market.

Source: Forbes November 23, 2016 20:21 UTC