Renaud Laplanche is the Founder and CEO of LendingClub, a social lender which currently works exclusively within the Facebook platform.
Laplanche grew up in France, was trained as a lawyer, completed his MBA before working for New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb in Paris and in New York. He worked for the firm for five years in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and investment transactions involving technology companies before founding TripleHop Technologies. TripleHop Technologies, the software company that designed MatchPoint, was founded in 1999 and sold to Oracle in 2005.
Laplanche was honored with the HEC "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2002 and won the French sailing championship twice, in 1988 and 1990.
Renaud Laplanche earned an MBA from HEC Business School.
I think I'm still like many entrepreneurs I'm still too optimistic and I'm still surprised by how odd it is to build a company even the second time or third time around and how long it takes to reach the milestones. I think entrepreneurs tend to be optimistic in nature which is, they would not even...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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