Nicholas Newsome, from Oakland, California, graduated from the University of Southern California in 2011, with a degree in Business & Cinematic Arts. Shortly after, Nicholas moved to the mountains of Colorado, where he worked for a Federally Qualified Health Center focused on serving the low-income, medically underserved population. Nicholas joined Affirm in 2016, a financial technology company based in San Francisco, where his focus is operational analytics and software automation.