Company

Sallie Mae (SLM)

Type: public
Ticker: SLM · NASDAQ
Market value: $6B

Sallie Mae (SLM) is public, listed as SLM on NASDAQ, in Banking and consumer credit.

What it sells: private student loans.

In the language of this map it serves 1 solution — Student loans — which between them relieve 1 human friction.

Its neighbourhood

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Sells

Student loansEarly adulthood

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

The credential costs more than the student hasEarly adulthood

Trends pressuring it

The unbundling of the degreeReal but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed.
The return of the tradesCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.