Seeking Alpha Author Billy Duberstein joins Cheddar to discuss why he has a positive outlook on Lending Club, an online platform connecting borrowers and investors. Duberstein talks about challenges the company has faced in the past, and how it's adjusting internally
Lending Club went public in August of 2014 at $15 per share, but has dropped down to around $4 recently. Duberstein talks about highlights from its investor day on Thursday, December 7th.
He says Lending Club is three times bigger than Prosper, the second-biggest pure marketplace model, which is still private. Lending Club and Prosper are the oldest and have the most data. Other competitors that use their balance sheet are Discover, SunTrust, Lightstream, and Goldman Sachs' Marcus product, which are all growing, but still not as big as Lending Club.
Seth Schachner, Managing Director at Strat Americas, talks Disney's taking control of Hulu, Warner Bros. and Discovery's split and how if affects the viewers.
The Tony Awards on Sunday lured 4.85 million viewers to CBS, its largest broadcast audience in six years. CBS says Monday that Nielsen data shows the telecast — hosted by “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo — scored a 38% increase over last year’s 3.53 million viewers. That’s the largest audience for the Tonys since 2019, when the telecast that year nabbed 5.4 million viewers and “Hadestown” was crowned best new musical. The latest version also had to compete with the second game of the NBA Finals, between the Thunder and Pacers,
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