Proptech Espresso features real estate professionals, entrepreneurs, and visionaries at the forefront of the proptech evolution.

 
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Creating a Content Platform for the Real Estate Industry

How central is real estate photography to the home transaction process? What is the ecosystem of participants and content creation involved in real estate photography? Why has property imagery surpassed property details as the primary reason users surf listing portals? How has COVID accelerated the adoption of real estate photography technology over the past year? Branick Weix, Brendan Quinlan, and Matt Michalski- co-founders of Aryeo, join Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and entertain us with how a high school job at a golf course construction site led to founding a drone imagery business where early real estate industry adopters sought them out for unique property imagery.


September 15, 2021

How A Former Carpenter is Changing the Construction Industry

What are the pain points senior engineers contend with when managing hundred million dollar construction projects? Why are Facebook ads and LinkedIn messages not going to crack open the doors to decision-makers and influencers within construction firms? How did going to MIT's Sloan business school provided the opportunity to carve a new path within a construction career? Why has working with clients on construction sites been fundamental to building trust with construction company customers? How do TracFlo's machine learning algorithms benefit construction teams by reflecting real-time change orders? 

Khalid David - founder and CEO of TracFlo, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and share how working alongside his father as an apprentice carpenter on construction sites at a young age shaped his desire to continue the family tradition of working in the built environment.


September 1, 2021

Social Charging Your Real Estate Leads

Why has omnichannel marketing not been as successful within real estate as in other industries? Why have real estate agents historically resisted adopting new technologies into their businesses? How has the elongate sales cycle of real estate been a challenge for lead nurturing for agents? What are the emerging opportunities for social media marketing for today's real estate agent?

Ajay Pondicherry - co-founder and CEO of Block Party, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and explain how his e-commerce background provides a unique perspective for addressing opportunities in real estate.


August 18, 2021

Airbnb for Warehouses

Why have commercial real estate agents historically shied away from short-term rental needs? What are the issues with subleasing which cause parties to avoid the obvious solution? How can you automate the commercial leasing process which typically takes months and teams of lawyers? How do you build a two sided real estate marketplace where everyone wins? What impact has Amazon had on commercial warehousing in the US?

Brad Wright - CEO of Chunker, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and address the impact of COVID-19 on the global supply chain.


August 4, 2021

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Making Homeownership Achievable

How does the complexity of real estate transactions create an opportunity for technology to improve the overall experience? What similarities exist between the adtech and proptech industries? How can the playing field be leveled for families and individuals that want to purchase homes and build communities? What can be done to empower real estate agents to help their clients in hyper competitive bidding situations?

Lindsay Van Kirk - VP, Sales and Operation at Ribbon joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and address the opportunity for seller agents to support the broader communities in which the live and work by discussing how home sales is much more than just a financial transaction.


July 20, 2021

Leveling the Playing Field in Real Estate Investment Properties

Why does being an entrepreneur equip a founder to expect the unexpected? What lessons did Scott learn from losing almost everything in the 2009 financial crisis? What are the unique investment insights that Privy has built into it's solution to help individual investors make decisions? Why should novice real estate investors avoid the lure of gurus and the guarantees that the promise?

Scott Fahl - Founder & CEO of Privy joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and share the many ups and downs of his entrepreneurial journey in real estate.

July 7, 2021

Elevating Creative Solutions to the Housing Crisis

Can the current housing crisis be solved with technology? How have different government policies and social forces contributed to economic and racial inequality in housing? How is the Terner Center advancing innovative policies to influence the way government at all levels is directing money towards creative ways to address housing needs? What successes have the first cohort class from the Housing Lab achieved after the program?

Michelle Boyd - Program Director for the Housing Lab, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and address the need for an equitable recovery from COVID-19.


June 23, 2021

Building an Operating System for Rental Real Estate

In today's world, should we still be defining businesses along the traditional lines of product and services? How is proptech evolving and accelerating in India and surrounding markets? Can co-living recreate the missing physical connections of communities that increased internet usage has greatly reduced?

Ajay Kumar - co-founder and CEO of TheHouseMonk, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss the path to building an international platform for centralized rental real estate management.


June 9, 2021

Obtaining Financial Flexibility From Your Home

Are differing US municipal codes causing fragmentation challenges and thus preventing broader proptech adoption? Why isn't the home a more integral part of the financial advisor planning process? What causes people to talk about homeownership as a financial investment but in reality don't treat it as a financial investment? Why is financial flexibility so important for homeowners? Joe Cianciolo - Co-Founder & CEO of HomePace, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and much more.


Joe Cianciolo is co-founder and CEO of HomePace, Inc.  HomePace enables consumers to achieve their financial goals by providing them to access their home equity without taking on additional debt or interest.

Prior to founding HomePace, Joe was Head of Business Development at Unison.

Joe was previously an executive at FutureAdvisor where he joined as its fifth employee and first non-engineering hire.  As Head of Sales & Business Development, he was responsible for creating and leading client acquisition and revenue-generating functions at FutureAdvisor, driving the firm's growth in assets under management from less than $10 million to over $1 billion in less than 3 years.  Following FutureAdvisor's acquisition by BlackRock, Joe led commercial strategy and distribution for BlackRock's Digital Wealth Technology platform.  

Joe began his career as an investment banker at Thomas Weisel Partners and also previously led business development efforts at financial technology company SecondMarket (acquired by Nasdaq).

 Joe graduated from Pennsylvania State University with both a Bachelors's in Economics and an MBA.  He currently lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina area with his wife Sarah and their son and daughter.


May 26, 2021

Delivery on the Promise of a Virtual Leasing Experience

Why is the traditional rental showing experience so challenging and unsatisfactory for all participants? What percentage of a leasing agent's time is spent traveling to and from listings? How are different segments of multifamily leasing managers adopting technology to automate their processes? Chris Kostoulas - co-founder and COO of Peek, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how a virtual first leasing platform enables multifamily managers to rent their units much more efficiently, helping them rethink how all of their assets are shown.

Chris is the Co-Founder & COO of Peek, a virtual real estate tour company based in NYC, that’s providing the most seamless way for leasing managers, brokers, and agents to adopt virtual tour technology across their workflow and more efficiently rent apartments.

Prior to starting Peek, Chris was an early Uber employee (~300) and one of the first in New York. Chris has built an impressive track record in operations, product and business development-- launching multiple US and international markets for Uber, as well as working cross-functionally on a product team, and working in business development for data partnerships. 


May 12, 2021

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Real Estate for Social Good

Fueled by a passion for social entrepreneurship, Caroline Pinal co-founded  Giveback Homes to empower the real estate industry to turn business into an opportunity for social good. Pinal and team deliver innovation and impact to their network of like-minded real estate agents, brokerages, technology, and service providers. In concert with these companies, Giveback Homes has helped deliver over 200 homes to families in need during the past five years.  Pinal worked directly with Concierge Auctions to establish Key for Key, an award-winning social good program that builds a home in Central America every time a property sold at auction. 

Prior to Giveback Homes, Pinal worked at TOMS, the business that pioneered the one-for-one model by giving shoes to children in need. During her time at TOMS,  she worked alongside Blake Andrews. After a giving trip in Central America,  Blake shared his goals to bring a sustainable giving model to the world of real estate. From this idea, the concept of Giveback Homes was born. Pinal has traveled the globe, leading building trips and conducting impact investigations in areas of greatest need. 

Born and raised in the Mojave Desert, Pinal studied Journalism at Cal State Long  Beach, worked at Fox News and The Walt Disney Company. The path was paved early on for Pinal as she always felt the desire to apply her experiences in storytelling and creativity towards something bigger. Her mission is to guide companies and individuals toward creating more intentional and socially responsible businesses.

April 28, 2021

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Making Shared Affordable Housing Prolific & Affordable

What is the rooming house phenomenon? How do you provide housing for segments of the population that cannot afford market-rate housing? Is it possible for landlords to make a profit in the affordable housing market? Atticus LeBlanc - PadSplit founder, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how he is using technology to increase the supply of affordable housing and create a roadmap for affordable housing renters to become affordable housing landlords.


Atticus is the CEO & founder of PadSplit, an online marketplace that leverages shared housing as a tool for financial independence. PadSplit is a public benefit corporation that has garnered national acclaim as a solution for housing affordability, creating more than 1,200 affordable units in Atlanta in the last 2 years. Atticus has been an affordable housing developer since 2008 and has presented on housing solutions at MIT, UC Berkeley, and the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. He is also the co-founder of Stryant Construction & Management Inc. Atticus serves as the co-chair of ULI’s UrbanPlan Education Initiative, co-chaired the Design For Affordability Task Force in 2018, was a member of Leadership Atlanta’s Class of 2020, and is currently a volunteer with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Atlanta. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Architecture, and currently lives with his family in Decatur, GA along with 2 dogs and lots of chickens.

April 14, 2021

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Solving Apartment Owner's Data Silo Dilemma

JoyHub is a business intelligence platform specifically for professional rental owners, managers and operators. By providing access and connectivity across their existing technology infrastructure JoyHub provides rental operators with a holistic view of their properties, tenants and portfolios. Powered by a proprietary integration layer, JoyHub connects, collects and aggregates data from various data sources to support secure data storage, custom reporting and predictive analytics. With access to data from across their various systems, operators view dashboards, create aggregated reports and develop risk models to capitalize on trends, respond to unpredictability, and maximize NOI to deliver greater overall value to investors.

March 31, 2021

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Connecting the Built World

Victor Hunt is the CEO and co-founder of Astorian, a contractor marketplace for building owners and managers. Victor worked in property management for over a decade at a 5000 tenant portfolio in The Bronx where he was inspired by his own challenges hiring contractors. He and his co-founder started the company from their dorm room at Yale and have raised over $2 million in funding from First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Village Global.

March 17, 2021

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Empowering Consumers and Realtors with Proptech

Bobby Bryant is the CEO of DOSS Group INC., the holding company for Ask DOSS, DOSS Pros, DOSS Social Agents, DOSS Home Loans, DOSS Home Warranty, etc... DOSS is a proptech company that's obsessed with creating an End-to-End Fair-Priced Digital Real Estate Marketplace. They are developing a Voice-Activated Intelligent Assistant built into a proprietary search and transactional platform that empowers the Consumer and REALTORS® to ask any question about any property in the world to get accurate, easy, and instant answers 24/7.

March 3, 2021

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Innovating the HOA Space

Despite over a quarter of American's living in a form of an HOA community, HOAs remain very much a mystery to most of us. Buying into an HOA brings added diligence complexity to prospective homeowners around HOA rules as well as the financial viability of the HOA. Unfortunately, this transactional diligence is very archaic and paper-based. Luckily, our guests today on Proptech Espresso, Jamie Hankinson and Tom Beattie co-founders of Eli Report, are bringing much needed innovation to the HOA space and doing their part to make 2021 the year of Canadian proptech.


Jamie has over 10 years’ experience across technology investment banking, private equity and operations.  Before joining Eli, Jamie worked within the private equity arm of an established real estate developer in Vancouver.  Prior to this role, he was a technology and special situations investment banker at a prominent boutique investment bank in Vancouver.

Thomas has over 15 years’ experience in financial services and was CEO of fintech startup and FINRA broker-dealer Voleo. Thomas is focused on digital transformation; specifically the application of technology to improve efficiency, consumer protection and education. As a former investment banker and startup consultant, Thomas was involved with the raising of billions of dollars of capital for public and private companies. 

February 17, 2021

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Transforming Mortgage Economics

Jada Mclean is the Co-founder/CEO of Hurry Home, the platform enabling homeownership of houses valued at $80,000 or less through shared ownership. As an alumna of the renowned Techstars Accelerator and participant of UC Berkeley Terner Center’s inaugural Housing Lab cohort, Jada has been recognized for Hurry Home’s innovative approach to filling in the gap of financing for small-dollar properties. Prior to founding Hurry Home she was an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Mccoll Partners (acquired by Deloitte Corporate Finance) where she focused on advising companies through mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. She holds a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University and currently resides in Chicago,IL.

February 3, 2021

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Proptech Solutions for Commercial Real Estate Companies

Why have real estate investors finally started trusting proptech solutions with their data? What are the primary operating tools being adopted by real estate portfolio managers? Andrew Flint - co-founder of Occupier, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how the success of commercial real estate owners has delayed the adoption of technology, with younger tech forward leaders now changing this approach.


Andrew Flint is the co-founder of Occupier, Inc., a Real Estate Success platform for commercial tenants and tenant rep brokers. He has 10 years of experience in NYC commercial real estate and 9+ years at the forefront of commercial real estate technology. Andrew realized the need for modern technology in Commercial Real Estate, experiencing the inefficiencies of the industry firsthand while at JLL. In 2012 he joined VTS has the Head of Business Development after being an angel investor and first non-founder user of the platform. Andrew graduated from the University of Colorado in 2000.


January 20, 2021

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Elevating the Proptech Industry

Ashleigh Wilson is the Founder and CEO of AuditMate, a vertical transportation software, and management company. AuditMate is on a mission to empower building owners and managers with data-driven maintenance auditing products that radically simplify vendor management and selection. Ashleigh believes that in order to do well, we must start by doing right and is proving this by making vertical transportation management accessible and simple.


January 6, 2021

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Building Value that Matters

What are some of the secondary effects caused by the lack of housing? Is the recent increase in awareness of the affordable housing issue the result of public opinion shifting or is this only a by-product of the crisis levels we have reached? Iman Novin - founder of Novin Development and CEO of ProforMap, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how he is using technology to identify sites to increase the supply of affordable housing.

Mr. Novin has over 14 years of experience in the multifamily development sector and has been involved with the development of over 9,000 multifamily units valued over $3.5B throughout California. Iman founded Novin Development to focus on urban infill, mixed-income, and transit-oriented development projects with a double-bottom line commitment to risk-adjusted returns and social/environmental sustainability. 

Prior to starting Novin Development, Iman worked at MidPen Housing as Director of Acquisitions and at BRIDGE Housing as a Project Manager in both northern and southern California. While at MidPen, Iman lead acquisition efforts across the Bay Area, closing new deals and managing broker and investor relationships. While at BRIDGE, Iman helped secure entitlements and LEED-ND certification for MacArthur Transit Village, a 675-unit masterplan community in Oakland among other successful investment and development projects. Prior to BRIDGE, Iman worked in the real estate and planning divisions of Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC, now Civic San Diego) on Public Private Partnership and affordable housing policy initiatives within the Downtown San Diego Redevelopment Project Area, as well as with Keyser Marston Associates (KMA) in their San Diego office. 

Iman has served as Vice-Chair of the Walnut Creek Planning Commission, Board of Directors of the Trinity Center, a non-profit homeless service provider, and Board of Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Iman also enjoys helping shape housing policy at the State level as an elected Delegate in CA Assembly District 16. Iman holds degrees in both Structural Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California, San Diego with honors.


December 16, 2020

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Creating A Financial Identity For Everyone

Most of us take for granted the ability to open a bank account and access credit. But for many immigrants arriving in the US, establishing a financial identity is extremely difficult. Samir Goel and Abbey Wemimo - co-founders of Esusu, join Proptech Espresso to share their personal stories of coming to the US, confronting these challenges, and launching a startup to help make this simpler for future disenfranchised generations.

Abbey Wemimo is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu, a financial technology platform that reports rental data to build tenant's credit scores while helping property owners increase revenue, lower evictions powered by differentiated data and insights. Prior to Esusu, Abbey founded Clean Water for Everyone, a global social venture providing affordable access to clean water for 250,000+ people in six countries. He also founded a data analytics company designed to gather machine-readable data on NGOs operating in Africa which was acquired in 2014. Previously, Abbey was a mergers and acquisitions consultant at PwC, where he worked on more than 20 buy and sell-side deals valued at over $50 billion. He also gained valuable experience working with Accenture, European Commission, and Goldman Sachs. 

Abbey and his work have been recognized in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Quartz, Fortune, Teen Vogue, Vice, Black Enterprise, and Cheddar. Abbey was selected by Queen Elizabeth II as a Queen Young Leader. He was inducted into The Royal Commonwealth Society in 2017 and named to the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He speaks at global conferences and has presented at the United Nations, the Vatican, the World Food Prize, and Clinton Global Initiative among others. Abbey graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. He holds a Masters of Public Administration degree from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School School of Public Service and a Leading Change Scholar from The University of Cambridge.

Samir Goel is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu, the leadinga financial technology platform that reports rental data to build tenant's credit scores while helping property owners increase revenue, lower evictions powered by differentiated data and insights. Esusu’s renter ecosystem currently covers over 250,000 rental units in 35 states across the United States. 

Prior to Esusu, Samir Co-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized non-profit that uses technology to ensure that excess food goes toward underserved communities across New York City.  Transfernation has rescued over 2 million pounds of food and impacted 1.8 million lives. Samir’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Quartz, Fortune, Vice, Black Enterprise, and he was named to the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. 

Previously, Samir worked at LinkedIn in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Samir also worked at The United Nations and Venture for America. Samir contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. He speaks at conferences around the country and has addressed The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting. He received his Bachelor of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business.


DEcember 2, 2020

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Diversity in Proptech

How can proptech hope to attract a more diverse and inclusive workforce when minorities and people of color are not able to buy the underlying real estate assets? Despite a push from startup founders, VCs, and institutional investors to be more diverse, the fact remains that it has been less than 100 years since the passing of the Fair Housing Act in 1968. Fortunately, efforts by investors and founders are being made to address these realities and change the trajectory of inclusiveness within proptech. Krishna Parikh - Venture Capitalist at Moderne Ventures, joins Proptech Espresso to educate and challenge us on driving these diversity changes within proptech.

Krishna is an Associate with Moderne Ventures. Her primary responsibilities include supporting the Passport Program, sourcing new companies, and supporting Moderne's Portfolio. Prior to joining Moderne Ventures, Krishna was an analyst at Keller Williams Realty International. She worked on technology trends research, sourced startup companies for partnerships, and participated in special projects. During her time at Keller Williams, she even had opportunities to work directly with Gary Keller, founder, and CEO of KWRI. Krishna received her Bachelors of Arts with honors in Sociology and a minor in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

November 19,, 2020

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 One Digital Payment Solution for the Built World

Founded out of the need to digitize the earrnest money deposit (EMD) process, Earnnest sits at the intersection of fintech and proptech. With no shortage of areas to improve the homebuying experience, Earnnest set out to remove some of the friction in this process by developing a fast, secure, and enjoyable alternative to a cumbersome offline process. Rick Altizer- CEO of Earnnest, joins Proptech Espresso to discuss his company's quest to develop a single digital payment solution for the built world.

Experienced CEO / senior leader across multiple industries Rick Altizer joined Earnnest in March 2019 from BP, where he was senior vice president of fuel sales and marketing for North America. He was named North America’s Fuels Leader of the Year in 2018 by Convenience Store magazine Prior to BP, Rick served as regional vice president for McDonald's, running a $1 billion region with 500 stores. He also served as president of Jiffy Lube International, vice president of marketing for Shell Oil Company, the first non-founder CEO of organic burger pioneer startup Elevation Burger and president of private-equity-owned McAlister's Deli. In 2020, he was named a RISMedia Newsmaker for his headline-making contributions to the real estate industry as CEO of Earnnest.
Under Rick’s leadership, digital payment maven Earnnest has raised over $5M in capital, increased revenue 15x and has grown staff 5x to 30 employees. Rick’s goal is to present Earnnest as “the one digital payment solution for the built world” beginning with residential real estate in the US.

November 4,, 2020

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Covid's Impact on the Future of Real Estate

COVID has impacted all facets of the global economy and real estate is no exception. While the short-term impacts continue to play out in real estate, COVID is setting the stage for significant innovation in commercial real estate over the longer-term. Soner Hacihaliloglu - CEO of BEAD Technologies, joins Proptech Espresso to discuss commercial real estate's need for intelligent buildings and how this is the missing integration element needed to fully realize smart cities.

Soner Hacihaliloglu started his professional carrier as Project Manager at Siemens Ares-account Technologies. After working 3 years in Building Technologies he was appointed as the MENA Region Business Development manager at E-on Ista Holding. During the time he served as a Business development manager he was responsible for the operations in 5 different countries in 3 continents. He set up operations from 0 to 50m Euro revenue in 2 years. Soner has been chosen as one of the best Innovators under 40 and Best young Energy Professional in the MENA region in 2017 and 2018. As of 2018, Soner is the CEO of BEAD Technologies, a company that has been awarded by the UN, Europe Union, Sustainable Management Assotioains as one of the best innovations in 2018.

October 21,, 2020

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The Future of Proptech and Real Estate

No one who has ever met Mike Greene will ever be able to accuse him of being short of words or opinions. Join Proptech Espresso for a fascinating discussion covering a wide range of topics including the conflation of xTech (Mike apparently has insider knowledge on the hot hair gel tech sector), finding your next job by documenting a personal what sucks list, to extending market leading positions in COVID by further exploiting platform advantages derived from nimble and tech enabled infrastructures.

As the Chief Executive Officer, Mike Greene is responsible for all commercial activity at ResiShares.Mike’s fascination with the housing market began with a guest lecture in his undergrad economics class by Nobel-winning economist Robert Shiller. The lecture focused on Shiller’s eponymous home price indices, which first drew attention to the possibility of liquid, geographically-based investment products.During his 15 years in the securities industry, first on the sell-side and then as the head trader at Bocage Capital, Mike had a front-row seat to the rapid replacement of human discretion by algorithms in trade execution, portfolio optimization, risk analysis, and even asset selection. The implications of this evolution on the housing market were never far from his mind. Mike left the securities industry in 2017 to focus on this new housing asset class, working with top SFR and whole loan investors at HouseCanary, leading home valuation and analytics platform. Witnessing the organic emergence of the single-family rental ecosystem convinced him that the world was finally ready to see Shiller’s challenge accepted. ResiShares is the culmination of this career-long dream. 

October 7, 2020

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No Free Lunch. A Journey to Customer Advocacy in PropTech

We all know that there is no free lunch, so how do 'free' services, specifically free proptech services make money? Wendy Gilch - CEO of Selling Later, joins Proptech Espresso to discuss this and her efforts to bring transparency and customer advocacy to home transactions.

Wendy is the CEO and Founder of Selling Later; an ally for consumers that let’s future home sellers and home buyers connect in advance.  In addition to giving time back to consumers, Selling Later also peels back the layers of secrecy within the industry by educating consumers on the selling/buying process.   Their unbiased platform creates a safe place for consumers to connect, without selling member information or participating in referrals programs.   They believe that referral companies work against consumers and agents, and instead allow direct connections between future buyers and sellers. Their mission is to be a trusted ally for consumers by giving them time and transparency in real estate, while also supporting nonprofits. Wendy is a graduate of Slippery Rock University (yes, it does exist) and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and two kids (three if you count their dog).  She believes that a successful founder focuses on solving a problem and supporting those that are making a difference in small communities.

September 23, 2020

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Biggest Challenges Facing Proptech

What are some of the fundamental changes undergoing real estate today and which will change first? From increasing homeownership opportunities to borrowers or opening up access to homeowner equity, what will be the PropTech's impact on our everyday lives? Alex Villacorta - Residential Real Estate Valuation Guru, joins Proptech Espresso to answer some of these questions.

Alex Villacorta is a pragmatic and enterprising Data Scientist with a diverse business and analytics catalog, delivering industry-validated analytical products through proven executive leadership. Engineer of advanced statistical models in both design and production implementation, attaining key intellectual property and multimillion-dollar contracts. Housing industry expert regularly cited in tier one media outlets for predictive housing analytics. He is an expert statistician and business executive combining over 10 years of statistical analysis in both consumer and business analytics with extensive board room communication experience. 

September 9, 2020

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Proptech Industry In a Time of Uncertainty

Matt Hoffman joins Proptech Espresso to discuss how capital forces and COVID-19 are impacting real estate, and gives us a primer on ‘housing tech’.

Matt is a strategy, innovation, and business development executive with deep experience in housing and community development, finance, and urban policy. He has a track record of creating value and revenue growth through discovering and conceiving new ventures, business planning, managing cross-sector teams, deal-making, and supporting entrepreneurship with a core focus at the intersection of technology and housing. His career experiences in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors support a deep commitment to civic engagement and problem-solving for the common good that brings disparate parties together.

August 26, 2020

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Defining Proptech and Its Impact on Property

JP Ackerman joins Proptech Espresso to discuss the globalization of the proptech industry, the challenges it has faced and how we now define the community.

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JP is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Data Collective Venture Capital.  JP advises several early-stage organizations on GTM and product strategy.  Prior to DCVC, JP started a residential lender - SimpleFinance led commercial efforts as EVP, Head of Sales at HouseCanary, and spent a decade at PulteGroup helping to manage the community portfolio, acquisitions, and dispositions.   Through his roles, JP’s led partnership with SFR Operators, iBuyers, lobbying groups, governmental and rating agencies, capital providers, lenders, insurers, data providers, and analytics developers.

August 17, 2020