The Future of Financial Aid - And How to Disrupt The College Board's Monopoly on Purchased Names

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About the Episode

Meet Dror Liebenthal - the Co-founder and CEO of Bold.org, an organization committed to eliminating the student debt crisis in the United States, and building a more sustainable recruitment and enrollment experience between students and higher education institutions.

The average student today will graduate more than $30,000 in debt and is far less likely to start small businesses, seek the highest impact careers, buy homes, or start families.

Students around the country are taking on huge amounts of debt to get access to the education they want and need. By enabling students to fund their education through exclusive funding opportunities, Bold.org broadens access to that education in an affordable and sustainable way.

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Host

Seth Odell

Seth Odell is Founder and CEO of Kanahoma, the fastest growing digital marketing agency in higher education, and host of The Higher Ed Pulse.

Mallory Willsea

Mallory Willsea is a strategist and consultant working at the intersection of higher education.

Interviewee

Dror Liebenthal

Dror immigrated to the US and was the first in his family to navigate the US education system, with scholarships opening critical educational doors along the way. As the CEO of Bold.org, Dror focuses on scaling product, growth, and operations towards our mission of fighting student debt. Dror also leads our philanthropic efforts and relationships with donors as President of the Bold Foundation. Prior to co-founding Bold.org, Dror was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mechanism Ventures and the VP of Operations at a high-growth talent network, leading globally distributed teams across a wide range of domains. Dror graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University, with additional focuses in Computer Science and Moral Philosophy.

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