According to HousingWire, Leah Price is leaving her position as general manager of Better's Tinman AI platform to join United Wholesale Mortgage's technology team in an innovation role later this month. Price had been with Better for about a year, having been hired in June 2025 to lead the company's artificial intelligence strategy efforts.
Better's founder and former CEO Vishal Garg announced Price's departure on social media, expressing surprise that someone so central to the Tinman AI initiative would be leaving the company. However, Better's leadership issued a statement saying that Price's exit is unrelated to the corporate governance dispute currently playing out between Garg and the company's interim CEO Daniel Lewis.
Price comes with significant experience in financial technology and innovation. Before joining Better, she worked at the Federal Housing Finance Agency where she was a senior specialist in fintech and innovation, eventually leading the agency's Office of Financial Technology. Her background also includes roles at Figure Technologies and Fannie Mae, where she developed expertise in lending ecosystems and technology strategy.
Better's spokesperson characterized Price's departure as simply her pursuing a new professional opportunity and expressed gratitude for her contributions to expanding the Tinman platform's reach across the mortgage industry. The company pushed back against any interpretation that her exit signals broader problems within the business or reflects the ongoing leadership tensions at the company.
What I am seeing locally in the Bay Area and East Bay is that talent migration in fintech and mortgage technology continues to be a constant dynamic. When experienced people like Price move between companies, it often signals where the real innovation investment is happening, and UWM's interest in bringing her on tells me that major players are still competing hard for the best technology minds despite the broader market headwinds we've all been navigating.
