Welcome to the Car Dealership Guy Podcast. In this episode, I'm speaking with Sanjiv Yajnik, President of Financial Services at Capital One where we discuss: Secrets of the #1 auto lender, How to scale to 100M customers, What's next for car ownership and much more.
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Topics:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Sanjiv’s background and career
00:10:25 - How were you able to scale to this size?
00:15:54 - How can we solve the affordability crisis?
00:21:38 - The Navigator product
00:25:17 - What trends are you focused on?
00:28:21 - What’s your vision for this “card” for dealers?
00:35:35 - How do you come up with innovative ideas?
00:42:06 - What are you seeing in terms of buying signals from the consumer?
00:44:28 - What’s next for CapitalOne?
00:53:03 - Where do you see the auto industry trending?
01:00:31 - Closing thoughts
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