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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

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Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests. What does financial disintermediation really mean? Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ). LendingTree is an online lending exchange that connects consumers with multiple lenders, banks, and credit partners.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. When Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP in 1947, it made logistical and fiscal sense to have all their workers housed under one roof. Ditto for Apple.