Business Insider profiled Bluevine founder Eyal Lifshitz. From the article:
By any means, Eyal Lifshitz didn’t have to take the rough-and-tumble life of a startup founder.
He’s got an MBA from University of Chicago, worked at the consulting firm McKinsey, and spent nearly three years as a VC at Greylock IL.
So when he decided to leave his cushy VC job in 2013 to launch his own startup called Bluevine, an online financing company, a lot of people thought he was crazy. …
Two and a half years in, Bluevine has raised $64 million in funding so far, has been doubling in size almost every quarter, and is expected to grow revenue by another 300% this year. It’s projected to finance $200 million to its customers this year alone.
Read the full article here.