Today's guest is Harold Li, Director of Data Science at VTS in New York. Founded in 2012, VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing and asset management platform, bringing together landlords, brokers and tenants to make deals happen. VTS software enables office, retail, and industrial landlords and brokers to transform their leasing process and convert leads to leases 41% more efficiently.


MarketView, the industry’s first market benchmarking product, gives landlords real-time information to inform deal negotiations and leasing strategies. Completing the VTS platform offering is the VTS Market & Marketplace - the industry’s first, integrated online marketing platform and marketplace - which is designed to drive tenant demand for landlords and remove friction from the leasing process for tenants and tenant rep brokers.


In the episode, Harold will discuss:


Key Learns building data science teams at Lyft and Blue Apron,


The current work he does with VTS,


What attracted him to the real estate sector,


Interesting projects the Data Science team are working on,


What he looks for when hiring into the team,


What the future holds for VTS and


How new technology will continue to evolve the Real Estate industry