Awards & Recognition
★EY Entrepreneur of the Year
★Inman's 2024 and 2025 Best of Finance Awards (consecutive years)
★HousingWire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive
★Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School
★Better.com won Banking Tech Awards Best LendTech Solution 2025
★Company ranked #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list
★Company ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List 2020 and 2021
Notable Facts
→Founded Better.com in 2014, now publicly traded (NASDAQ: BETR) with $100B+ in mortgage volume
→Previously founded MyRichUncle at age 21, became 2nd largest private student lender, went public in 2005
→Company backed by SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, American Express with $1.75B in equity capital raised
→Infamous for firing 900 employees via Zoom call in December 2021, generating viral negative coverage
→Recently announced partnership with OpenAI for ChatGPT mortgage underwriting app
→Lives in Manhattan with wife and three children, originally from India, moved to Queens at age 7
→Graduate of Stuyvesant High School and NYU Stern School of Business with highest honors