If you don't have a pretty history or you don't have a FICO score, you're pretty much shut out of the system. Testas have been definitely one of the best performing models from a delinquency perspective. The past five years, we didn't have really one year that was a normal year. Every year was like something crazy happening.
Before we get into the show, a thank you to our sponsors, CDK Global, Autoholler Exchange, and Len Buzz, for making this episode possible. Let's get into it. I'm Mattai on the CDG podcast. I'm Mattai, welcome. Hi, how are you? Thanks for having me. Good to have you on. I think it's funny. This is, in a way, this is closing the circle here. We met when I was still at GettaCar, and we partnered up when I was at GettaCar, so it's great to have you on.
在我们开始节目之前,先感谢我们的赞助商:CDK Global、Autoholler Exchange 和 Len Buzz,正是他们让这一集成为可能。好了,开始吧。我是CDG播客的主持人马泰。欢迎大家,我是马泰。你好,最近怎么样?谢谢邀请。很高兴你能来。我觉得这很有趣,从某种意义上来说,这是个一段关系的闭环。我们在我还在GettaCar工作时认识,并且在那时合作,所以很高兴邀请你来。
Yeah, I really appreciate you inviting me. It was definitely closing a circle. It was fun to interact at the previous time and fun today. A lot of it's changed since, to say the least.
All right, well, we got a lot to talk about today. Autolending has been a very hot topic over these last couple of years, especially with just interest rates and everything that's changed in our market. It's funny that one of the ways where I sort of wedged into the market and the CDG and the brand grew was actually through autolending, specifically through talking about autolending as over the last couple of years, with everything that happened.
Many lenders pulled out of the market. I covered that a lot. And so it's a pretty meaningful topic to me given the fact that I've just been really involved with the different lenders, and I've seen a lot change. And as have many people that have listened to this podcast, I think it's gonna be super interesting.
But I wanna start as usual, like we do on the podcast about you, if you can just tell us a little bit about yourself, how does an investment banker, a tech investment banker, make his way into the auto business? Whether directly or indirectly, how did this happen? Tell us a little bit about yourself. My background is definitely not in auto. I'm not coming from an auto dealership family. My background is in computer science and math.
I led R&D terms at my early days for about six years. And then moved to the Boston area about 16 years ago to do my MBA here, graduated and joined Deutsche Bank. So transition from R&D and technology into corporate finance and specific investment banking was focused on IPOs, M&A, of large tech companies.
And then at some point, I realized that I wanna do something that's more entrepreneurial, more building my own business path. And really around 2013, 14, 15, there has been a very significant growth in FinTech. It was not really called FinTech at the time, but it was very clear that financial technology is growing faster, gonna be a lot of innovation around it. And I thought that my background in both computer science as well as corporate finance would be relevant in the new FinTech sub-segment.
And then I approached it more about more from the angle of consumer finance, not necessarily auto. So what issues, what problems are there in consumer finance and then dived into auto. I would say that my first Euro two in auto lending, I was very much clueless on the ecosystem of auto and dealerships and how things really work.
But I had good, I learned from people in the industry pretty quickly and I think now I'm fully caught up. So as someone that came in from the outside, and for what it's worth, you've been doing this not for eight years. So it's not quite an outsider anymore, but we see this every day, it's sometimes you see something, you get used to it.
It's hard to actually tell the difference from other industries. So what did you see, what's nuanced about the way we do lending in auto. Did anything strike out at you as like, this needs to be better or this is like a broken process. I mean, what struck out at you when you first, were exposed to auto lending in our business.
I think the main thing that struck out that is broken was specifically in consumer, consumer finance in the US is the fact that everything is based on credit history and credit score. And, you know, if you don't have credit history or you don't have a FICO score, you're pretty much shut out of the system. That didn't make sense to me.
When I moved to the Boston area, I didn't have credit history. I was unable to get, you know, a credit card and auto loan and mortgage. So this is really the, I would say, the core problem that we looked initially into. And then as we looked at, okay, where is the pain point, the greatest out of all consumer finance products, we figured out that auto is the one that's most critical to solve because eventually you can do okay without a credit card.
You can, you know, work with your debit card. It also takes quicker to get access to credit cards. Mortgages, comment, and much later stage in your life. Your, you know, your first house is gonna be, you're gonna buy it usually after you bought one, two, three cars. So if you solve auto, you solve the biggest part of that problem. So that's why we thought about tackling auto. And then once you start digging into auto, if you're from the outside, as you said, it's similar to how you started, you started this podcast talking a lot about lending. Really, auto is the consumer product that's mostly driven by lending. Financing is so critical to that product. It's really driving a lot of sort of what a consumer can purchase, how they can purchase it.
So that's, if you're able to do it better, that makes a huge difference for specifically for this consumer product, definitely learning the FNI office and understanding how that operates. It's a very unique set, right? It doesn't operate in any, it doesn't operate similar to anything else in retail. So, you know, it's a. Let me also add something there. Like this is, you know, one of the things that lots of new operators learn very quickly in auto is that you are at the mercy of your lending relationships, right? It's, you don't have lenders, you don't have a business. It's extremely difficult to operate without quality.
I see you smiling because it's the truth. Like it's a lot of operators. Like if I could tell you every week I get a DM from some dealer asking me about some lender or, hey, I'm a new dealer, maybe looking for lenders. Who do you recommend for, you know, this type of profiles? So, it's definitely an industry where, you know, lending you're sort of at the mercy of it. And by the way, it used to be different. When I started in the business, our percentage of cash buyers was a lot higher and it went down over the years. I know that, you know, recently as of the last two years, it's gotten higher. You know, I spoke with a Cadillac dealer yesterday and he told me that I don't know, like 50% of the escalates he's selling are like cash nowadays, like some crazy percentage. So the point being that, you know, interest rates have, you know, left people with, you know, high disposable income to go cash.
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CDK developed it with an outside-in approach, listening to dealers every step of the way. You can learn more about CDK's dealership experience platform by visiting CDKglobal.com/DXP or clicking the link in the show notes below. Before you tell us a little bit about what you're working on today specifically, can you give us a little overview of the current state of auto lending? Like where are we at today? Like I mentioned earlier in the podcast, right? The last two years, lots of lenders pulled back. The market really tightened up meaningfully. It's got loose or since then, but can you just give us a little kind of lay of the land where we're at today?
It's a good question. I think it's funny to think about it. The past five years, we didn't have really one year that was a normal year. Every year was something crazy happening, whether it's like COVID coming in and then stimulus money and exuberant lending in 21 and then things shifting back. It seems like 24 has somewhat been the first more normalized year. Obviously at high rates, but somewhat of a normal year. I would say that we've seen during 23, a significant pullback in auto lending, specifically into, I would say two brackets. One is the banks. So banks, credit unions had significant funding issues. As deposits were flowing away from the banks, that pressure on their funding and as a result, they significantly pulled back on their auto lending. Some platforms that which were very large platforms, like citizens, BMO, completely pulled out of the market and some just drastically reduced their auto lending. That's one.
And the second one is specialty lenders, specifically non-prime specialty lenders that had delinquency issues or basically credit issues have been pulling back significant and really cutting the credit box in many different ways. Some went out of business, some remained in the business, but are originating it, probably 50% lower than what they originated during 21 into 22. I think 24 is the first year that things have somewhat normalized. You definitely see the captives taking a bigger share of the overall pie. You see some of the banks that are stronger balance sheet, better credit performance like Chase that are continuing to grow nicely. And then with the specialty lenders, specifically non-prime, it depends how well they weathered the huge spike in delinquencies.
So specifically non-prime auto, we've, I don't think it's well known or appreciated as much, but we've basically, at the end of 23 surpassed the peak of sub-prime auto delinquencies versus what it was in 08.09. So we're basically at the worst place than the great financial crisis in sub-prime auto. The ones that have taken large losses have been pulling back and say lenders like us that have fared relatively well are continuing to grow fast. There's always been this trend in our business where some new lender comes in hot and they grab a ton of market share, at least from your in-store market share and two years later they disappear.
I'm sure every GM owner, sales manager who listened to this has experienced this where suddenly just X-lenders like, oh, that's it, we're out for business. And it's honestly so predictable, you can just tell who's coming in to Gung Ho and really aggressively likely just getting too deep into the FICO. Explain to us what problem are you solving today? Like your business land boss, can you just give us an overview, a brief overview of what you're actually setting out to solve in the market?
So land boss is an AI-based auto financing platform and we focus on using alternative data, AI to provide better access to consumer credit, specifically auto finance for underserved populations. The first segment of the market that we focused on and developed our credit models for, we're people with no FICO score. So think about people that are either, do not have a credit file or they have a file that's too thin to be scored by FICO. These individuals were always defaulted to the deep subprime lenders, getting loans at state max rate, very high fee to the dealerships, 1,000, 1,500, $2,000 discount on that contract. The way we thought about it is that it's a relatively large market significantly underserved by traditional lenders, there are about 45 to 50 million people living in the US without a FICO score.
所以,Land Boss 是一个基于人工智能的汽车融资平台,我们专注于利用替代数据和人工智能为消费者提供更好的信用获取服务,特别是面向那些被传统金融机构忽视的群体的汽车融资。我们最初关注并开发信用模型的市场细分是没有FICO信用评分的人。想想那些没有信用档案或信用档案太薄而无法被FICO评分的人。这些人通常只能通过深度次级贷款人获得贷款,贷款利率极高,且支付给经销商的费用非常高,合同上往往有1000、1500甚至2000美元的折扣。我们的考虑是,这实际上是一个相对较大的市场,但传统贷款机构严重忽视,有大约4500万到5000万在美国生活的人没有FICO信用评分。
If we can build credit models that qualify the ones that are likely to perform better, that's a significant opportunity. As we deployed our software solution and the auto leadership started receiving credit applications, what we saw is that our credit models significantly outperform FICO for the near prime consumer. So think about FICO's of 580 to 720. And today these are the two main segments of the market that we serve, the no FICO consumer and as well as the near prime consumer, sort of 580 to 720 FICO. And we're able to serve these customers, providing them a better rate, lower fee to the dealership, as well as 100% tech enabled process so digital, mobile enabled, getting the deal both approved and funded much faster versus a traditional non-prime vendor.
How does someone like yourself come up with this idea, execute on it and compete with these behemoths in the market? We know there's some auto lenders super entrenched in our industry that have been doing this. How do you actually create a model that's profitable? How do you get these customers approved or with better rates more efficiently? How are you really doing this? Auto lending has been around for almost a century now probably or less than that, but a long time. And there are large incumbents that are doing very well in the market and serving consumers and dealerships every day. But it's still such a large market, about 750 billion of annual auto loan origination, there are sub segments in the market that are underserved.
Specifically from a regulation perspective, the regulatory framework around the banks, especially after 0809 really precluded them from serving well people that don't have a FICO score. It's very penal to their balance sheets, to the regulatory capital that they have to set aside. So if you're able to build a credit model that serves this segment of the market, you're gonna do it better than the large banks, the traditional lenders that have been serving the market, whether it's the prime banks or the captives. The way we thought about it is what type of data is relevant for consumer credit that we can focus on. And we've been focusing on, I would say, a very large set of data, but if I'm trying to focus on the things that really matter for underwriting, it's you can think about as cash flow based underwriting. So focusing rather than your credit file, is focusing on your cash flow. What is the level of your income? What is the pattern of your income? What is your spending patterns? What are the balances in your account? What's coming in? What's coming out? So really trying to build a full financial profile of that individual that doesn't have a credit file, but might have both ability to pay has been managing their lives in a responsible way or their financials in a responsible way, and has both ability to pay and willingness to pay.
Since it's a very large set of data for each individual, you're not really able to do it without using AI or machine learning algorithms. So one aspect here is the set of data, and the other aspect is, okay, which type of model, which type of algorithms are you gonna use in order to analyze the data? So we've been fortunate to start this business in a time where machine learning, deep neural networks, AI has been growing very fast. There was a lot of innovation in that space, so we can actually deploy new algorithms and new computer science methodologies to a large set of data that's relevant for credit underwriting. And once you do it, you get better outcomes in predicting credit risk, predicting credit worthiness, and able to serve a segment of the market that hasn't been served by the banks for many years.
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Now, how big is this opportunity? Right? Again, any deal or listening to this has definitely witnessed a consumer that has a thin file or that doesn't get approved or maybe gets approved on terrible terms. We all know the opportunity exists, but put some numbers behind it. How big are you really, how prevalent is this right now across the country? That's a good question. So overall, if you think about the target market, there are 45 to 50 million consumers in the US that do not have a FICO score. So it's one large segment of the market. And then about 30% of the consumers are in that near prime segment. So sort of 580 to 720 or 550 to 720. So about 40% of total consumers in the US fall into the bucket of consumers that we serve really well. We've been growing extremely fast so it definitely is a proof that there is a need in the market.
We've been growing over 100% Kager for the past five years, basically meaning that we continue to double the business every year. We're currently at about a 1.5 billion annual run rate of loan origination. So doing about a 1.5 billion a year. And we plan to continue to grow that. We're working with very large leadership. So for example, seven out of the 10 largest Toyota dealerships nationwide. I'm talking about dealerships that sell 800, 1,500 cars a month are working with us. And we're either number one or number two after their captive after Toyota financial service. So very large in terms of serving customers in these dealerships. We've been growing fast into a large opportunity. I would say probably three out of the five largest nationwide groups are working with us. We're both at the very large franchise dealerships as well as the independence. We like the independence as much as the franchise dealerships. We think that the same opportunity, the same issues that are at the large franchise dealerships exist at the independent year.
Talk to me. So you have obviously lots of exposure across the country to these dealers. Talk to me a little bit about what are the trends you're currently seeing on the ground floor? Where are we heading as an industry right now in terms of loan performance? You mentioned that subprime loans are not fair and too well. Where are we heading? What's coming up next? I think there has been extreme exuberance in lending during 21 into 22. And that's basically both credit quality as well as the issues we had with extremely elevated pricing. So if you think about 22 pricing, both used cars and new cars were selling at extreme elevated levels. We as a result, everything that goes up too quickly goes down. We're now at a point where the delinquencies have shot up significantly from an all time low in subprime auto of about 5, 6% monthly delinquencies to I think about 16% it hits as we were going into the seasonality of sort of the January 24.
We're either at the peak of the delinquencies or very close to the peak just based on historical data. If that continues to go up, it would be a very concerning trend. But I think we've hit the peak and now we're seeing normalization. The reason for that normalization is twofold one, all lenders including us have been cutting their credit box. So basically being more responsible and cautious with taking credit risk. So as new loans are coming on the balance sheet, they're performing better than the ones that were originated during 2022, which was a very challenging vintage in our industry. That's one and the second is asset values.
So asset values have come in both used cars as well as new cars, you're not seeing this new car dealership selling $10,000 over sticker price. It doesn't exist anymore. So that has normalized and as a result, credit performance is likely to improve which I think overall is very good both for the lenders but also for the dealerships because eventually I think you said it well, the dealership really depends on the lenders to be there in order to drive the business. If credit improves, then lenders are gonna have more appetite to lend, to open the credit box again. I think we're gonna see conditions continue to loosen into 24 and then into 25. And then there is always the question of rates themselves which is a today are extremely high levels based on the past 20, 25 years. We'll see if that's gonna come in. I'm on the camp that it's gonna stay higher for much longer than people plan for or thought but I'm not going to predict them accurately.
You've been in the bank for a decade or two years. You mentioned captives, how captives have been growing in market share. And again, for anyone listening that's not familiar with the term captives, of course, is the lending arm of an associated auto manufacturer. So if you're Toyota, you have Toyota Financial and et cetera. What's driving the growth in captives? Is this strictly a form of just subsidy? Whether you can put a rebate or you can put a subvented rate on an incentive or is there any other drivers behind the scenes that are really getting captive to shoot up in market share like they have been recently? It's mostly driven by this significant pullback of the banks and the credit unions. So the local banks, the regional banks, the credit unions that have been very large players in the space have been deploying capital into auto lending for many years and actually growing share have pulled significantly starting in 22, driven mostly by funding issues.
So their deposits having significant pressure as well as credit issues. So as the credit unions, the local banks, the regional banks have been pulling back, the captives have been filling that gap. They obviously have an intrinsic incentive to make sure that consumers with appropriate credit risk are getting alone, right? So Toyota Financial Service needs to make sure that there is enough capital flowing into the dealerships to finance Toyota vehicles, but it's mostly driven by the significant pullback, unprecedented pullback of banks and credit unions. A question I get off and I think about this a lot is the value of dealers having their own captive lenders, right? It's something that I looked into a ton at Get A Car, we were talking about acquiring a lender and whatnot because it was just so intrinsic to our business. We knew that if you wanna build the best car buying experience, a big part of that is the loan, right? Cause everything centers around the loan, the steps that you need to collect, I mean, everything.
他们的存款压力很大,还有信贷问题。由于信用合作社、地方银行和区域银行在逐步收缩业务,资本公司正在填补这个空缺。他们显然有内在动机确保具有适当信用风险的消费者能够获得贷款,对吧?所以丰田金融服务需要确保足够的资金流入各个经销商,以融资购买丰田汽车,主要原因是银行和信用合作社急剧且前所未有的收缩。有人经常问我,我自己也常常思考,经销商拥有自己的专属贷款机构的价值,对吧?在Get A Car的时候,我深入研究了这个问题,当时我们讨论是否要收购一家贷款机构,因为这对我们的业务来说太重要了。我们知道,如果要打造最佳的购车体验,很大一部分是贷款环节,对吧?因为一切都围绕贷款展开,包括你需要收集的步骤,所有一切。
So with that in mind, I'm curious to know how you think about the state of digital retailing, financing being integrated into that, right? Most dealers don't have their own lender. They do not car max or carvana, where it's fully integrated into their product. And there's no doubt about it that does have an advantage when it comes to the customer experience and ultimately saves time and aggravation for a consumer and a dealer. So what are your thoughts on just the current state of digital retailing with respect in auto business, of course, with respect to lending and that being integrated? That's a good question. I think there is still a lot to do in terms of adopting digital retailing at the dealership and the overall ecosystem. A lot is still paper based, antiquated, even the software that is used, a lot of it has been developed in the 19s and hasn't really caught up with the consumer experience that's expected today.
I think some lenders are doing a better job in terms of getting there, but it's not where things should be. I think at the dealership, there is definitely room for significant improvement in terms of removing all the paper from this process. If you think about it, only 12% of contracts today are e-contracts. That's an insanely low number. That's still over 80% is paper based, which means you actually get a paper in front of a consumer. They assign it that goes into a FedEx package, getting shipped somewhere to a lender. What we have done is really remove all the paper from the process. 100% of the process is digital, 100% of the process is mobile enabled. All the steps provided are provided from the consumer's phone. If we need a proof of income that comes from linking the bank account on their phone, if we need an idea, they just snap a picture on their phone and that gets uploaded immediately. So once you turn that process to be 100% mobile, you're enabling the consumer to really provide everything that's needed very quickly whether they're shipped and get a much better experience. 100% of our contracts are e-contracts, so nothing is done in paper. And that also significantly accelerates the funding of that all. So if everything has been provided digitally, then you can clear all the steps very quickly.
Over 70% of our loans are funded same day. So really there is no need to wait five to seven days for a loan to get funded. It doesn't get too much. But I want to ask you a question on that. You mentioned only 12% of our industry is e-contracting. You mentioned you're 100%. What's the pinch point? What's holding us up from it as an industry to getting to 50%. What's driving that? Is that from the lender's side or is it from the dealer's side? Both, how do you view that? It's both. So both lenders and dealerships need to adopt technologies that are really driving a 100% digital process. If you're a dealership and you're 100% digital, but you're working with a lender that does require a wet signature, then it doesn't work. And vice versa, right? If the dealership process is still printing out contracts and getting that signature, it doesn't matter that the lender accepts e-contracts. So both sides need to step up and move that process. The software products also are some of them are still relatively old and haven't really caught up, whether it's the DMSs or the LMSs that are at the dealerships have been developed. 80s, 90s are improving, but not there yet. There are definitely DMSs that are much more advanced than others today in the industry that are getting us closer to a 100% digital process.
At some point when everything is digital and done over the phone, you're also shifting to a place where a lot of the purchase can be done at home by the consumer and not needing to be at the dealership necessary. I'm not at a camp where there are people that say, okay, in 20 years, they're not gonna be dealerships and we're gonna need it and it's all gonna be direct to consumer. I'm not in that camp, but I definitely think that more can be done by the consumer at home to basically do the entire financing process, do the entire sale process and really get to the dealership to close. We are advancing there. We're definitely making good steps towards that goal, but it's not there yet. And I think once you turn the process to be 100% mobile enabled, you're getting much closer to that goal.
Thinking about a little bit about your company and just the expansion, do you have any aspirations to go into any other parts of the business? Today you're lending, have you looked into insurance? I'm curious to know kind of how you're thinking about the opportunity in general. Given the fact that you're already integrated with so many dealers and so, go ahead. Yeah, I don't think necessarily we're gonna look at other aspects of the business outside of the lending. I think insurance is a good part of the business, but less likely for us to go into it. We are focused on providing a better product for the dealership as well as the consumer on the landing side. We do provide floor plan solutions for independent dealerships, so independent dealerships that have been growing, their business with us, we're providing them attractive floor planning solutions that allow them to accelerate the growth of their business, but less likely for us to go into other parts of auto.
We're definitely growing geographically, so we're Boston based, we started in Massachusetts and expanded on the East Coast. Naturally, Florida has grown to be one of our largest territories on the East Coast. And then more recently expanded on the West Coast, so last year started working in Texas, California, which are obviously large markets. So expansion and growth is mostly geographic focus rather than other, I would say, parts of the auto ecosystem. I think there are others that are more professional than us in sort of the other aspects.
So before we wrap up, one of my favorite questions as always is what's exciting to you nowadays? Just thinking really big picture and about anything and everything related to our industry or not, what goes through your mind? The most exciting part in the next probably 10 years is gonna be evolution of AI into the into dealerships and digital retailing. I think it's gonna have a significant impact on how business gets done and how well we serve the consumer. It would be fun to start seeing virtual AI agents starting to really interact with consumers. I've been playing along with all types of solutions there.
But once you're really gonna see that rollout, that's gonna have a big impact on how our industry both sells cars as well as finance consumers. So there's a lot to be excited about in the next five years with the evolution of AI and integration of AI into digital retailing and specifically with auto. And then every new model that comes out, we like to follow, we're excited. It's nice to see also the trends around EVs are also fascinating to follow.
Sort of the volatility around it and sort of the hype and now I don't know if it's awakening but it's definitely has been slowing down significantly. We're following it closely, both as a lender but more less than a lender more as a sort of funded person on the side. Yeah, I was gonna ask you because with those price drops on EVs and obviously lots of negative equity, has that thrown a wrench in your models? I mean, what's that board meeting been like? That's a good question.
So we've definitely followed asset values around EVs. The interesting thing, so we're extremely data driven company and everything we do is based on data. The very interesting thing is that, so Tesla obviously represents the lion's share of our EV portfolio that's most of the EVs sold in the US are Teslas. And Teslas have been definitely one of the best performing models from a delinquency perspective. So something about the persona that buys the Tesla as well as the reliability of the vehicles, not too many mechanical issues, drives them to be very good performing credits.
So overall, despite the fact that values have dropped significantly, we just haven't seen, we have seen a very low default level on Tesla. So we're hoping that that remains the case. We're actually expecting it to remain the case. So we're still in the game of financing EVs, but let's see what's the adoption on the consumer side. It seems like people are definitely less excited these days about getting an EV. Yeah, it's up and down, it's cyclical. So it's gonna be interesting. I'll definitely keep following it closely.
So Amitai, this was awesome. If anyone wants to learn more about LenBuzz, you can go to LenBuzz.com. We'll also throw up the link in the show notes below. Any closing thoughts for us? First of all, it's thanks a lot for hosting us. It's definitely fun to reconnect and I hope that I get invited again in a year or two. I love it. My pleasure, my friend. It was really good to have you all and thanks for coming on. Thank you.
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