For Lending Start-Up, a Man Who’s Been Through a Few Cycles
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Jerry Weiss, 57, second from left, at work in the offices of Bond Street, a start-up small-business lender in Manhattan.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
Through three decades, Jerry Weiss wore coats and ties to the offices where he managed credit risks at the nation’s biggest banks — a 50-story Citigroup tower in Queens and the 60-story Chase Manhattan Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
Now Mr. Weiss, who is 57, works out of a tiny two-room office in the Flatiron district, home of the start-up small-business lender he joined last year, where his younger colleagues make fun of his New Balance sneakers and “dad jeans.” His bosses at the start-up, Bond Street, are a pair of apple-cheeked Harvard graduates; and the average age of his seven colleagues is 28…
For Lending Start-Up, a Man Who’s Been Through a Few Cycles
