In November 2020, Forbes quoted an e-mail in which he chided them as "a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS".
Garg's treatment of employees has attracted negative publicity. In a deposition in December 2019 in his counter-suit against Khan, court documents state that Garg threatened to "staple him against a fucking wall and burn him alive" Garg apologized later in the same session. Khan's claim of fraud was dismissed in May 2018.
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Khan alleged that Garg misappropriated both funds and proprietary software to launch, and a group of investors also filed suit alleging diversion of funds through a venture capital firm founded by Garg called 1/0 Capital. In August 2021, The Daily Beast estimated his equity in to be worth at least $1 billion. In 2014, after a frustrating experience obtaining a mortgage, Garg founded, an online mortgage broker backed by venture capital at an early stage, he acquired Avex Funding of California to bolster the new company in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis. Garg later filed a counterclaim against Khan for mismanagement and theft of funds. Khan came to believe that Embark was misusing funds and that Garg was siphoning money from EIFC, resigned from both, and in 2013 filed a lawsuit against Garg.
Garg and Khan also used features of the software developed for MyRichUncle to start EIFC, a company that analyzed loan portfolios to identify potentially problematic loans. Garg later co-founded two further student loan companies: Future Finance, a provider of student loans to students in the UK, with Brian Norton in 2013, and Climb Credit, targeted at US programs with relatively lower costs and higher graduate employment rates, with Zander Rafael and Amit Sinha in 2014. Beginning in August 2009, they also jointly led a new asset-backed securities team at Aram Global, an asset recovery firm. Garg and Khan continued to operate Embark, a provider of admissions software to higher education that MRU Holdings had purchased in 2007. MyRichUncle was caught up in the repercussions of the subprime mortgage crisis and its parent company, MRU Holdings, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2009. Embark, Future Finance, Climb Credit, and EIFC For their analysis-based approach to tailoring loan rates to different applicants, in 2006 Garg and Khan were listed in both Fast Company 's Fast 50 and Business Week 's Young Entrepreneurs of Tech.
Khan's brother provided an initial capital investment. With Raza Khan, a fellow Indian immigrant whom he met in high school and who studied computer science in the same class at New York University, Garg founded a mortgage investment company in 2000 that became the online student loan provider MyRichUncle. After graduation, he worked for a short time for Morgan Stanley.
Beginning in 1995 he studied finance and international business in the Stern School of Business at New York University while working as a runner and entry clerk for Salomon Brothers and as a trader for VZB Partners, a hedge fund. While attending the academic magnet Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, he resold books, CliffsNotes study guides, and thrift store clothes at a profit. He is the chief executive officer of mortgage lending company and previously co-founded the student loan company MyRichUncle.īorn in India, Garg moved to the Queens borough of New York City when he was seven, and grew up in Forest Hills. Vishal Garg (born 1977 or 1978) is an Indian-American entrepreneur.
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