EP 99 : Solving for Credit Access | Ramakrishna NK & Smita Satish (Co-Founders, Director & CEO, Rang De)

Ram and Smita are the Co-Founders, Director and CEO of Rang De, a Peer-2-Peer lending platform. They started Rang De to solve the problem of low credit access  and bring the community together through social entrepreneurship. They spoke about their founding journey, finding product market fit, building a community through trust and communication and more in their interview with Roshan Cariappa.  Key highlights: 00:00 Introduction 01:44 Founding journey of Rang De 09:24 Estimating size of the problem 11:05 Lessons from solving credit access 13:47 Misconceptions with P2P Lending 16:47 Finding Product Market Fit 21:48 Principles to curate supply and demand 26:35 Building a community 29:14 Learnings from working through covid 34:54 Picking a problem and solving it 37:27 Closing Remarks ------------------------------------- Connect with Ram: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramnk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ram_nk ------------------------------------- Connect with Smita: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smita-ram-7095358/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/smitaram ------------------------------------- Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​ ------------------------------------- If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message