From the ashes of COVID school closures, this Gen Z CEO built a thriving student-loan app
Sparrow’s Harrison Hochman says investors were initially wary of his youth: “When you’re in fintech, you can’t move fast and break things.”
As a junior at Stanford, Harrison Hochman was sent home because of COVID. Many of his friends were scrambling to pay tuition because their family’s incomes had taken a hit. Yet it was easier to book a plane ticket home than to find a private loan. Hochman and two cofounders, Griffin Morris and Daniel Kahn, started Sparrow, a service that allows students to compare loans. Today, Sparrow covers over 8,000 schools and has raised $7 million. Hochman, 24, has been listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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