Vishal Garg: Biography in Details
Who is Vishal Garg?
Vishal Garg is an Indian-American successful entrepreneur and businessman. He is popular as the founder and chief executive officer of mortgage lending company Better.com.
He recently came into the spotlight of the media when the video went viral where he abruptly fired over 900 employees in the United States and India over Zoom videoconferencing.
Who are the parents of Vishal Garg?
Vishal was born in the year 1977/1978 in India and raised in New York City, U.S.
He keeps a low-key profile when it comes to his personal life. He hasn’t disclosed his parents and other family members in the media.
Talking about his academic qualification, Garg completed his high school in the academic magnet Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.
He then studied finance and international business at New York University in 1995.
Further, Vishal Garg is of American nationality and he belongs to Indian ancestry. He follows the Hinduism religion.
Vishal Garg: Professional Life, Career
- In 2020, Vishal founded a mortgage investment company, MyRichUncle, an online student lender along with classmate Raza Khan.
- He also co-founded an investment holding company, One Zero Capital that focused on creating and investing in businesses at the convergence of consumer finance, technology, and digital marketing.
- In January 2014, he launched his own company Better.com, a mortgage company that provides a completely online process with rates, loan pre-approvals, and resources are available at all times.
- The company has been the fastest-growing homeownership company in America.
- He is also the founding partner of 10/0 Capital, a credit and financial technology incubator team.
- Furthermore, he also served as a founding partner of Phoenix Holdings, Climb Credit, The Number.
Rumors, Controversy
Vishal fired about 15% of employees of Better.com over a Zoom call on December 1, 2021. He mostly terminated the diversity, equity, and inclusion recruiting teams.
He addressed the scandals as that the performance and effectiveness of these people were the reasons as to why they were let go.
This is not the first time Garg has seen controversy with his employees. Earlier, he used harsh language to his staff as “dumb dolphins” in 2020.
Market, Efficiency, Performance, Productivity of those 900 employers were the main reason why they were fired on an online call.
Vishal Garg: Net Worth, Salary
As of 2023, the entrepreneur has an estimated net worth of around $4 billion according to other sources. While the Better company itself is estimated to be worth around $7.7 billion.
Vishal Garg invested nearly $10 million into AplhaFlow, a platform for investing in real estate debt in November 2020.
How tall is Vishal Garg?
Talking about Vishal’s physical appearance, he has a brown complexion. Likewise, he has a dark brown pair of eyes and as well dark brown hair color.
Vishal Garg stands at the height of 5 feet 8 inches tall and his weight is about 58 kg.
Social Media
Vishal Garg is active on Twitter with over 1.2k followers. He is active on Facebook. However, he doesn’t available on Instagram.