This episode will air on December 17, 2025

 

Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading provider of direct-source income, employment, and asset verifications. Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2025 by Forbes, Argyle serves the mortgage, personal lending, tenant screening, government benefits, and background check industries as well as the gig economy.

Since its founding in 2018, Argyle has raised over $100 million from investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Checkr, Mastercard, Rockefeller Asset Management, and SignalFire. Its customers number in the hundreds and include American Pacific Mortgage, NFM Lending, Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, NewRez, and Union Home Mortgage. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Hampshire College and a business degree from Columbia University. He is a published author whose book, Fiction of Value, explores how modern capitalism runs on a shared illusion: the belief that money can define the worth of everything in the world.