Pooling Career Risk with Charlie Olson, Co-Founder & CEO of Pando

Ryan Zauk
Wharton FinTech
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2 min readJun 17, 2020

In our latest podcast, Peter Jankovsky (WG’20) is joined by Charlie Olson, Co-Founder & CEO of Pando. Pando is an innovative new income pooling solution that allows people in high volatility careers to pool their career risk. Since inception, Pando has signed hundreds of professional athletes into income pools and has raised a Series A from top fintech investors.

In this extensive interview, Charlie covers a number of topics, including Pando’s value proposition for different customer segments and how it has grown; the challenges Charlie has overcome as an entrepreneur; and his views on how careers will change, especially as a result of the current pandemic.

Pando was founded after Charlie and his co-founder, Eric Lax, graduated from Stanford Business’s Graduate School of Business with MBAs in 2017. Prior to his time at the GSB, Charlie worked for Cheyenne Capital, a private equity firm based out of Jackson, WY. Concurrently, Charlie worked in search fund investing for Professor David Dodson and was a speechwriter and policy analyst for two governors. Charlie also holds two other degrees from Stanford, including a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in US History.

Charlie was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2019.

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Ryan Zauk
Ryan Zauk

Written by Ryan Zauk

Investor at OMERS focused on Software, Fintech, and AI. Media for This Week in Fintech.

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