Helping students to achieve their financial goals, with Ethan Fraenkel (ProGrad)

<p>I'm almost old enough to start voicing opinions about youngsters needing to cut their hair and get themselves some jobs. Which is convenient, because that's sort of what we're talking about today with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-fraenkel-7b05ab12b/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ethan Fraenkel</a> from <a href="https://www.prograd.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ProGrad </a>- a UK-based fintech that's taking an objective-first approach to improving student financing. </p><br><p>"You're not looking for car financing, you're looking to buy a car, you're not necessarily looking for credit, you're you're looking to make a purchase, you're not looking for mortgage, you're looking to buy a house. And so that's really the approach that we've taken with our algorithm as well, that allows us to predict how much money a customer will earn over the next five years."</p><br><p>You can learn more about ProGrad at https://www.prograd.uk/ </p><br><p>I mention Guy Kawasaki in our chat, here's his 'must see' TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtjatz9r-Vc </p><br><p>You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on my LinkedIn page</a> (feel free to connect). <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-to-lend-money-to-strangers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The show has its own page there</a>, too, and is also present, but less active, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/htlmts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram&nbsp;</a>and <a href="https://twitter.com/HTLMTS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> using the @HTLMTS handle. My action-adventure novels are on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0133U3HGC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_6VS5451P6XEAX61A9G5J" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon, some versions even for free</a>, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at <a href="https://confirmu.com/