Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans

Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by rfrey on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @08:50PM (#9502729)

Levchin must have been having the reporter on. This is not serious.

based on a person’s name, email, mobile number, birthday and the last four digits of his or her social security number

Onomancy, hotmailancy, astrology, and numerology, respectively. Ok I made up hotmailancy, but really. He just needed to add tiromancy and they could adopt Wallace and Grommet as their spokespersons.

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Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by jordanthoms on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:58AM (#9503364)

Those form the primary keys to access your credit record, they aren't going to be getting much data from them by themselves.

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Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by xasos on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @10:03PM (#9502923)

There is definitely waaaay more data points that go into the loan process. I remember reading that it uses anything from information from social profiles to your GitHub commit streak to see if it worthwhile to provide a loan.

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Re:Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans by ojbyrne on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:02AM (#9503207)

I assume that this was what was needed to run a credit report.

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