Tangent 💚 Proptech
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago -A new era is upon us, and Tangent💚 is back with our fourth new limited series, hosted by Proptech entrepreneur Edward Cohen, and venture capitalists Jeffrey Berman (Partner at Camber Creek) and Zach Aarons (Co-founder and GP at MetaProp). Tangent unites Proptech founders💡, real estate investors🏢, urban leaders🏙 and passionate creators🌎 who are improving our communities and cities. Join us to learn how we can solve present day challenges with innovative technology and greater collaboration.
💚Tangent Tank: Housing Crisis: Intrepid founders apply to come pitch their impactful business ideas to help solve the housing affordability, accessibility and supply crisis in the US and worldwide.
If you would like to apply to pitch your startup on Tangent Tank: Housing Crisis, email us your application to [email protected] .
💚Tangent Proptech: Proptech founders, real estate CEO's and urban leaders sharing groundbreaking companies, ideas, entrepreneurial lessons and inspiring stories. Stimulating debate may include the future of cities, the hybrid work era and Discomfort Zones (TM). Edward & Jeff cover also cover trending topics in Commercial real estate, Residential real estate, Proptech, Venture Capital and Finance with select industry experts.
If you're working with a non-profit org., a small business or an early-stage Proptech, that makes our communities and cities better, and would like to have your mission featured during our Features segment, please apply to [email protected].
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Episodes
The New Generation of Real Estate Tech Venture Capital, with RE Angels GP & Managing Partner Alon Gorbonos
April 11, 2024 10:43 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBAlon is the Founder and General Partner of RE Angels, a real estate technology angel fund solely composed of real estate experts with deep and diverse industry expertise focused on early stage startups. Alon also owns and manages several multifamily portfolios throughout the southeast (FL, NC & VA). Alon was the co-founder and managing partner of DTI Holdings, a vertically-integrated private equity real estate fund, which was established in early 2017 and successfully divested in 20...
The New Generation of Proptech Venture Capital, with RE Angels GP & Managing Partner Alon Gorbonos
April 11, 2024 10:43 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBAlon is the Founder and General Partner of RE Angels, a real estate technology angel fund solely composed of real estate experts with deep and diverse industry expertise focused on early stage startups. Alon also owns and manages several multifamily portfolios throughout the southeast (FL, NC & VA). Alon was the co-founder and managing partner of DTI Holdings, a vertically-integrated private equity real estate fund, which was established in early 2017 and successfully divested in 20...
The New Generation of Real Estate Tech Venture Capital, with RE Angels GP & Founder Alon Gorbonos
April 11, 2024 10:43 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBAlon is the Founder and General Partner of RE Angels, a real estate technology angel fund solely composed of real estate experts with deep and diverse industry expertise focused on early stage startups. Alon also owns and manages several multifamily portfolios throughout the southeast (FL, NC & VA). Alon was the co-founder and managing partner of DTI Holdings, a vertically-integrated private equity real estate fund, which was established in early 2017 and successfully divested in 20...
Future of Office | Coworking is Dead, Long Live Coworking: The New Flex Office Generation, with a16z-backed Codi CEO Christelle Rohaut
March 26, 2024 10:44 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBChristelle Rohaut is the Founder and CEO of Codi (backed by a16z), where she's building the walk-to-work revolution. Codi offers turnkey, private office spaces with the most flexible terms on the market. In a matter of days, any company can find a space for their team, with full and part-time options, outsourced office management, and flexible leases. Codi has also created a Relief Fund to help businesses impacted by WeWork's struggles. Christelle is an Urban Planner who aspires to ...
A New Way to Finance Tech-Enabled Real Estate Co's & Lessons from the Proptech Boom Cycle, with Cherry Lawn Capital Managing Partner Robert McDonald
March 13, 2024 10:44 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBRobert McDonald is the Managing Partner at Cherry Lawn Capital, on a mission to provide businesses with the real estate capital necessary to scale and the operational capital needed for a successful next venture round. Robert joins Edward, Jeff and Zach to also discuss lessons and takeaways from the previous Proptech boom cycle, and how should founders and investors think about structuring, financing and scaling tech-enabled and data-driven Real Estate business in the post-ZIRP era....
Climate Tech | How to Solve Real Estate's Greatest Challenge, with Measurabl CEO Matt Ellis
March 05, 2024 11:44 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBMatt Ellis is the CEO of Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG solution for real estate. Customers use Measurabl to measure, manage, report, and act on ESG data on more than 15 billion square feet of commercial real estate across 92 countries. Measurabl empowers customers to optimize ESG performance, assess exposure to physical climate risk, drive decarbonization, and secure sustainable finance opportunities. Matt is responsible for overall company operations, product visio...
Future of Office | The Boring Building Amenity That Makes CRE Investors Money, with Stuf CEO Kat Lau
February 22, 2024 11:45 - 30 minutes - 28 MBKatharine Lau is the CEO and Co-founder of Stuf, a self storage startup delivering modern, tech-enabled storage to consumers and businesses. Stuf partners with real estate owners to monetize basements, garages, and other spaces in commercial buildings as storage, creating new cash flow opportunities for landlords while providing neighborhoods with a new amenity. Stuf was recognized by Fast Company as one of The World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022. Previously, Kat led the suppl...
Housing Crisis | Unlocking 2% Mortgages, with Roam Founder & CEO Raunaq Singh
February 07, 2024 11:46 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBRaunaq Singh is the founder & CEO of Roam, the platform for purchasing a home with an assumable, low-rate mortgage included. Prior to founding Roam, Raunaq spent a decade in various product and operations roles across Uber, Opendoor and Culdesac. He received a Bachelor's degree in Political Economy from NYU and currently resides in New York City. (2:26) - Lessons from Opendoor & Uber (5:01) - Roam origin story (7:36) - Feature: Housing Trust Silicon Valley (8:48) - Assumable mort...
Future of Office | Convene CEO Ryan Simonetti: Building the Largest Office Experience Provider, WeWork's Bankruptcy & Office Predictions for 2024
January 30, 2024 11:43 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBRyan Simonetti is the CEO and co-founder of Convene, a global hospitality company that owns and manages premium Meeting, Event & Workplace locations around the world. His unique expertise in real estate acquisitions, development, and finance has helped catapult Convene to become a pioneer in the commercial real estate industry. Ryan is also the co-founder & Chairman of Ease Capital, a digital-first commercial lending platform that combines data, technology & world-class customer sup...
Housing Crisis | Jeff Bezos-backed Real Estate Company Allows Regular People to Invest in Rental Homes, with Arrived CEO Ryan Frazier
January 23, 2024 11:45 - 44 minutes - 41 MBRyan Frazier is the Co-founder and CEO at Arrived Homes, the Real Estate tech company that Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff invested in to make the wealth building potential of owning rental homes & vacation rentals more accessible. Ryan and the Arrived team believe they can do that by simplifying the process, and lowering the cost to get started. With Arrived anyone can buy shares in income producing rental properties starting at just $100. Arrived takes care of all the real estate oper...
Housing Crisis | The Lawsuit That Will Change Real Estate Forever & Reimagining the Home Buying Experience, with Aalto CEO Nick Narodny
January 11, 2024 11:45 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBNick Narodny is the Founder and CEO at Aalto, a real estate marketplace that lets people buy and sell homes online. Nick previously co-founded Grovo, a microlearning company for real estate agents that was acquired by Cornerstone on Demand. Real Estate runs in the family for Nick, after being raised and inspired by his real estate agent mother and father. Aalto combines modern technology with a centralized team of licensed agents. Buyers and sellers use digital tools to lead most of...
Fundrise CEO Ben Miller on Real Estate & VC Investment Strategies, Macro Trends for 2024 & Building the Online Blackstone
January 04, 2024 11:45 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBBen Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, the largest direct-to-consumer alternative asset manager in the US. Under his leadership, Fundrise has grown to over 2 million active users and over $3 billion in real estate private equity, private credit, and growth-stage venture capital. Ben also serves as Chairman of the Board of three publicly-registered investment companies and, during his 25-year career, has acquired more than $8 billion of real estate assets, including 37,000...
Future of Office | WeWork, Adam Neumann, & the Great Startup Delusion, with WSJ Best-seller Author Eliot Brown
December 20, 2023 11:30 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBEliot Brown is the co-author of The Cult of We (with Maureen Farrell), a WSJ best-selling book, and winner of the Financial Times, Fortune, and NPR Best Book of the Year Awards. Eliot covers startups and venture capital for The Wall Street Journal in London. He joined the Journal in 2010, when he was hired to cover commercial real estate in the wake of the financial crisis. He previously worked at the New York Observer, where he covered economic development and local politics. (2:1...
How Multifamily Investors Can Decarbonize Buildings Profitably & Avoid Fines, with Kelvin Founder & CEO Marshall Cox
December 05, 2023 11:33 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBMarshall Cox is a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and the Founder and CEO at Kelvin, winner of the MIT Clean energy prize, the Popular Science Innovation Award, and the Verizon Powerful Answers award. The Kelvin team has developed a system that eliminates overheating in pre-war buildings. The system, called the Cozy, is a wireless, low-cost, and easily installed retrofit that drops on top of radiators to control indoor temperatures in buildings with radiator heat. In individual insta...
State of Short-term Rentals, Travel Tech & Airbnb Regulation, with Hostaway Founder & CEO Marcus Räder
November 28, 2023 11:30 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBMarcus Räder started his first company when he was 11 years old. Since then, he's been learning about the world of business, growing up in an environment where global communication and connectivity gets better each day. With 10 years of experience in EdTech and online marketing at various startups, he decided it was time to help others. By founding Hostaway, he helps Airbnb and short-term rental hosts improve their businesses. (0:50) - Hostaway origins (3:16) - State of Short-term...
State of Short-term Rentals & Airbnb Regulation, with Hostaway Founder & CEO Marcus Räder
November 28, 2023 11:30 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBMarcus Räder started his first company when he was 11 years old. Since then, he's been learning about the world of business, growing up in an environment where global communication and connectivity gets better each day. With 10 years of experience in EdTech and online marketing at various startups, he decided it was time to help others. By founding Hostaway, he helps Airbnb and short-term rental hosts improve their businesses. (0:50) - Hostaway origins (3:16) - State of Short-term...
Cannabis Real Estate Opportunities & Challenges, with Zoned Properties CEO Bryan McLaren
November 21, 2023 11:25 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBBryan McLaren is the Chairman & CEO at Zoned Properties, providing regulated Cannabis Real Estate and knowledge since 2014. Cannabis is now legal across 37 US states, and NYC's recent roll-out has put the industry under scrutiny. In this episode, Edward Cohen & Zach Aarons explore the opportunities for Commercial Real Estate investors and retail owners within the Cannabis sector. (0:42) - State of Cannabis Real Estate (6:07) - Retail opportunities & challenges (12:03) - Home pric...
Bridging the Gap Between Short-Term Real Estate Lenders, Borrowers & Investors, with Groundfloor Co-founder Nick Bhargava | Tangent @ Blueprint
November 14, 2023 11:39 - 8 minutes - 8.25 MBGroundfloor is a private real estate lending marketplace open to non-accredited investors. Groundfloor opens the door to short-term, high-yield returns backed by real estate. Their platform brings together individual investors looking for short-term lending investments and borrowers looking for short-term financing for their specific real estate projects. Borrowers get access to more flexible, faster and cheaper capital than a traditional bank or a hard-money lender. Investors get a...
How to Maximize Multifamily Performance with Renter Analytics, with RCKRBX CEO Michael Broder & COO James Moore
November 08, 2023 11:55 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBRCKRBX is the first real estate SaaS platform that puts the voice of the renter at the Multifamily developer's and investor's fingertips, including across key investment, development, marketing, leasing, and management decision points. The platform delivers actionable intelligence around the preferences, priorities, attitudes, and viewpoints that drive renter decision-making combined with predictive analytics to understand how these factors will impact asset performance and value ov...
The Easiest Way to Integrate Multifamily Property Management & Proptech, with Propify CEO & Co-founder Remen Okoruwa | Tangent @ Blueprint
October 31, 2023 10:57 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBRemen Okoruwa is product-minded leader who's working to unlock data for the property management industry. Remen and his co-founders met while they were working at Hubspot, and are now bringing their deep expertise about integrations to streamline Multifamily property management operations for all stakeholders. Propify (YC W23) recently raised $3.3M from VC firm Prudence, with additional funding from Fifth Wall, RXR, PropTech Angel Group, and HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah. This ep...
State of the Self Storage Market, On Demand Storage Models & Creating Value with Social Media Content, with DXD Capital Co-founder Cory Sylvester
October 24, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBAs the Co-Founder of DXD Capital, Cory Sylvester brings 14 years of Real Estate & Finance expertise to revolutionize the Self Storage industry. Passionate about utilizing data and technology, Cory is building the largest platform for building and buying self storage facilities in the US. His Self Storage journey began with co-founding Radius+, a successful platform providing essential data for the self storage market. Through bootstrapping, they achieved seven-figure revenue and att...
Solving the Construction Labor Shortage with Mobile Micro-Factories, with Cuby Co-founder Aleks Gampel | Tangent @ Blueprint
October 17, 2023 10:58 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBAleksandr Gampel co-founded Cuby Technologies with Aleh Kandrashou in 2021 to tackle the construction labor shortage. After 200,000 engineering hours, Cuby is setting the stage to commercialize hundreds of mobile micro-factories (MMF's) on or near construction sites to enable developers, general contractors and local partners to build better buildings faster, more affordably with less labor. This episode is part of the Tangent @ Blueprint series. Blueprint is the most global event o...
CoreLogic CIO John Rogers on 22K Data Sources to Power Real Estate, Affordable Housing Development & Mitigate Climate Risk | Tangent @ Blueprint
October 03, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.6 MBJohn Rogers is the Chief Innovation Officer at CoreLogic, leading R&D on the biggest asset class in the world - the US Real Estate Economy, and driving new product development to market via an iconic property & location intelligence platform called Discovery. This platform allows clients that rely on data, insights, models and answers to drive growth or mitigate risk on their book of business. John asserts he's been fortunate to have worked in all 4 corners of the world leading larg...
Zillow Co-Founder Spencer Rascoff on the New Proptech Wave, Democratizing Access with Housing Innovation, & LA Tech Ecosystem
September 26, 2023 10:59 - 14 minutes - 13 MBSpencer Rascoff co-founded and ran Zillow for a decade as its CEO. Spencer is also the co-founder at Pacaso and, through his startup studio and VC firm, 75 & Sunny, is an active angel investor in more than 100 companies and is incubating several more. Rascoff is a NYT’s best selling author based in LA who focuses on Proptech, the future of work and the creator economy. Spencer is Visiting Professor at Harvard University where he teaches the StudioLab on Creativity and Entrepreneursh...
Tangent: Housing Crisis | It's Not a Mortgage, It's Not Renting, It's Acre, with Acre Homes CEO & Co-founder Mike Schneider
September 12, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBMike Schneider is the CEO & Co-founder of Acre Homes. Acre combines the ease of renting with the financial upside of owning. Acre is available in Raleigh-Durham, and will be launching in Atlanta and Nashville soon. Previously, Mike served as the VP of Technology Strategy at RE/MAX, and Co-founded First, a real estate tech company that leveraged machine learning to help agents win more business. (2:12) - Acre: Breaking the Renting or Home Mortgage paradigm (7:13) - Acre's model dur...
Housing Crisis | It's Not a Mortgage, It's Not Renting, It's Acre, with Acre Homes CEO & Co-founder Mike Schneider
September 12, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBMike Schneider is the CEO & Co-founder of Acre Homes. Acre combines the ease of renting with the financial upside of owning. Acre is available in Raleigh-Durham, and will be launching in Atlanta and Nashville soon. Previously, Mike served as the VP of Technology Strategy at RE/MAX, and Co-founded First, a real estate tech company that leveraged machine learning to help agents win more business. (2:12) - Acre: Breaking the Renting or Home Mortgage paradigm (7:13) - Acre's model dur...
Tangent: Housing Crisis | Using Robots to Build Homes Faster & Cheaper, with BotBuilt CEO Brent Wadas
August 23, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBBrent Wadas is the CEO at BotBuilt, a Y-Combinator Construction technology company based in Durham, NC that is revolutionizing building homes with robots to address the labor shortage and housing affordability crisis. Brent served in the US Army in Afghanistan after 9/11, where he fulfilled his patriotic calling. BotBuilt employs a methodology that makes homebuilding less capital intensive, creating less waste and enabling a much more sustainable building process. Brent served over ...
Housing Crisis | Using Robots to Build Homes Faster & Cheaper, with BotBuilt CEO Brent Wadas
August 23, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBBrent Wadas is the CEO at BotBuilt, a Y-Combinator Construction technology company based in Durham, NC that is revolutionizing building homes with robots to address the labor shortage and housing affordability crisis. Brent served in the US Army in Afghanistan after 9/11, where he fulfilled his patriotic calling. BotBuilt employs a methodology that makes homebuilding less capital intensive, creating less waste and enabling a much more sustainable building process. Brent served over ...
The Most Innovative Pro-housing Companies & Cities Helping Renters, Developers & Houseless Neighbors, with Ivory Innovations' Chief Innovation & Strategy Jenna Louie
August 08, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBJenna Louie leads partnerships and strategic outreach at Ivory Innovations, and was previously an investor with the Urban Development Deal Team at Stanford. Ivory Innovations' mission is to catalyze innovation in housing affordability by promoting the most compelling ideas in housing by convening industry experts, inspiring students to tackle housing issues, sourcing and supporting the best innovative housing entrepreneurs, and putting these innovations into practice. 💚Learn more: ...
Creating Pro-housing Ecosystems, with Ivory Innovations' Chief Innovation & Strategy Jenna Louie
August 08, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBJenna Louie leads partnerships and strategic outreach at Ivory Innovations, and was previously an investor with the Urban Development Deal Team at Stanford. Ivory Innovations' mission is to catalyze innovation in housing affordability by promoting the most compelling ideas in housing by convening industry experts, inspiring students to tackle housing issues, sourcing and supporting the best innovative housing entrepreneurs, and putting these innovations into practice. 💚Learn more: ...
The Real Deal's Amir Korangy on the Future of Real Estate Media, Building Hybrid Real Estate Communities & AI Opportunities & Threats
July 27, 2023 18:37 - 57 minutes - 53 MBAmir R. Korangy is an Iranian-American publisher and film producer, who founded the business magazine, The Real Deal, about real estate and finance news. He also produced the PBS documentary, "Building Stories", about architect Costas Kondylis. Amir Korangy is also an adjunct associate professor of media and real estate at New York University where in the fall of 2018 he will be teaching a course titled the Korangy sessions where graduate students will have an opportunity to court q...
Tangent Tank: Housing Crisis | Transforming Housing Development with Workforce Creation & Political Innovation, with Inherent L3C CEO Tim Swanson
July 11, 2023 10:58 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBTimothy Swanson is the President & CEO of Inherent L3C, a Chicago-based low profit LLC focused on enabling and empowering long term affordable homeownership and generational wealth creation through modular housing development, workforce platform and a smart home marketplace for future homeowners. 💚Learn more: ➡️Inherent L3C (site) - Transforming lives, communities and generations through homeownership 💚Featured: ➡️Propify (learn more) - The single source of truth for your CRE asse...
Tangent: Housing Crisis | Transforming Housing Development with Workforce Creation & Political Innovation, with Inherent L3C CEO Tim Swanson
July 11, 2023 10:58 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBTimothy Swanson is the President & CEO of Inherent L3C, a Chicago-based low profit LLC focused on enabling and empowering long term affordable homeownership and generational wealth creation through modular housing development, workforce platform and a smart home marketplace for future homeowners. 💚Learn more: ➡️Inherent L3C (site) - Transforming lives, communities and generations through homeownership 💚Featured: ➡️Propify (learn more) - The single source of truth for your CRE asse...
Housing Crisis | Transforming Housing Development with Workforce Creation & Political Innovation, with Inherent L3C CEO Tim Swanson
July 11, 2023 10:58 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBTimothy Swanson is the President & CEO of Inherent L3C, a Chicago-based low profit LLC focused on enabling and empowering long term affordable homeownership and generational wealth creation through modular housing development, workforce platform and a smart home marketplace for future homeowners. 💚Learn more: ➡️Inherent L3C (site) - Transforming lives, communities and generations through homeownership 💚Featured: ➡️Propify (learn more) - The single source of truth for your CRE asse...
How to Increase Workplace Efficiency, Improve Tenant Well-being & Reach Sustainability Goals, with Enlighted CEO Stefan Schwab
June 20, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBStefan Schwab is the CEO of Enlighted (acquired by Siemens), a Proptech provider of IoT solutions at the intersection of people, space, and work. Enlighted combines cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls that connect to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a singular, scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs. Customers include AT&T, WWE and the UK's NHS. 💚Learn more: ➡️ Enlighted's site ➡️ Stef...
Bonus | Discomfort Zone: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Ft. Steve Eisman, Zach Aarons, Nick Romito, Kevin Ortner, Imran Noorani & Noah Isaacs
June 06, 2023 11:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBThis is a Tangent Special episode. Discomfort Zone: the art of stepping out of your comfort zone to pivot in business and in life, and the science of changing your mind when you are faced with new facts and acquire new experiences. (0:25) - Zach Aarons (GP & Co-founder at MetaProp) (3:03) - Nick Romito (CEO & Founder at VTS) (3:47) - Kevin Ortner (CEO at Renters Warehouse and President at Appreciate) (5:09) - Steve Eisman (The Big Short investor) (6:14) - Noah Isaacs (Co-founder at...
Tangent: Housing Crisis | Rent-to-Invest & Build Residential Real Estate Wealth, with Roots Co-founder Daniel Dorfman
May 09, 2023 10:58 - 42 minutes - 59 MBDaniel Dorfman is the Co-founder at Roots, an Atlanta-based company aiming to help 1 million people create wealth through residential real estate investing and their innovative ''Rent it like you own it'' program. 💚Learn more: ➡️Roots (site) - The real estate portfolio that creates wealth for you and its Residents 💚Feature: ➡️Dottid (book a demo) - The single source of truth for your CRE asset management 💚Connect with Tangent: ➡️Edward Cohen on Twitter ➡️Edward Cohen on LinkedI...
Tangent Tank: Housing Crisis | Rent-to-Invest & Build Residential Real Estate Wealth, with Roots Co-founder Daniel Dorfman
May 09, 2023 10:58 - 42 minutes - 59 MBDaniel Dorfman is the Co-founder at Roots, an Atlanta-based company aiming to help 1 million people create wealth through residential real estate investing and their innovative ''Rent it like you own it'' program. 💚Learn more: ➡️Roots (site) - The real estate portfolio that creates wealth for you and its Residents 💚Feature: ➡️Dottid (book a demo) - The single source of truth for your CRE asset management 💚Connect with Tangent: ➡️Edward Cohen on Twitter ➡️Edward Cohen on LinkedI...
Housing Crisis | Rent-to-Invest & Build Residential Real Estate Wealth, with Roots Co-founder Daniel Dorfman
May 09, 2023 10:58 - 42 minutes - 59 MBDaniel Dorfman is the Co-founder at Roots, an Atlanta-based company aiming to help 1 million people create wealth through residential real estate investing and their innovative ''Rent it like you own it'' program. 💚Learn more: ➡️Roots (site) - The real estate portfolio that creates wealth for you and its Residents 💚Feature: ➡️Dottid (book a demo) - The single source of truth for your CRE asset management 💚Connect with Tangent: ➡️Edward Cohen on Twitter ➡️Edward Cohen on LinkedI...
AI Opportunities for Real Estate, Regional Banks' Impact on CRE & Creating Value with Software, with Dealpath CEO Mike Sroka
April 20, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes - 63.3 MBMike Sroka, CEO and Co-founder of Dealpath, a leading cloud-based software platform for commercial real estate investment and development teams, including Blackstone, Nuveen, Oxford Properties and L+M. Mike currently also contributes to Forbes' Real Estate Council, and previously worked as a PM at Zynga. Edward & Jeff are joined by friend of Tangent Zach Aarons (GP & Co-founder at MetaProp). (1:35) - Future of Cities: San Francisco (5:07) - Signature Bank's and regional banks' impa...
Housing Crisis | Fixing the Broken Mortgage System, with Altgage CEO Sukesh Shekar
April 04, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBSukesh Shekar is the CEO & Founder at Altgage, the Google search of mortgages, bringing simply affordable mortgages to home buyers. . Sukesh believes in the American dream of homeownership. However, mortgages are more unaffordable than ever and most mortgage processes lack transparency. Altgage makes home buying more affordable with smart mortgages that build wealth over time. 💚 Learn more: ➡️ Altgage's website - Mortgage deals that make home buying affordable. ➡️ Sukesh Shekar on...
Tangent: Housing Crisis | Fixing the Broken Mortgage System, with Altgage CEO Sukesh Shekar
April 04, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBSukesh Shekar is the CEO & Founder at Altgage, the Google search of mortgages, bringing simply affordable mortgages to home buyers. . Sukesh believes in the American dream of homeownership. However, mortgages are more unaffordable than ever and most mortgage processes lack transparency. Altgage makes home buying more affordable with smart mortgages that build wealth over time. 💚 Learn more: ➡️ Altgage's website - Mortgage deals that make home buying affordable. ➡️ Sukesh Shekar on...
Tangent Tank: Housing Crisis | Fixing the Broken Home Mortgage System, with Altgage CEO Sukesh Shekar
April 04, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBSukesh Shekar is the CEO & Founder at Altgage, the Google search of mortgages, bringing simply affordable mortgages to home buyers. . Sukesh believes in the American dream of homeownership. However, mortgages are more unaffordable than ever and most mortgage processes lack transparency. Altgage makes home buying more affordable with smart mortgages that build wealth over time. 💚 Learn more: ➡️ Altgage's website - Mortgage deals that make home buying affordable. ➡️ Sukesh Shekar on...
SVB's & Signature Bank's Impact on Proptech, Real Estate & VC, with Common Founder Brad Hargreaves & MetaProp Co-founder Zach Aarons
March 15, 2023 22:08 - 41 minutes - 75.5 MBHosts Edward and Jeffrey are joined by MetaProp Co-founder & GP Zach Aarons, and special guest Brad Hargreaves, Founder and Chairman at Common and contributor to Thesis Driven, to discuss Silicon Valley Bank's and Signature Bank's unraveling and it's potential implications on Proptech, commercial real estate and VC investing. (2:05) - SVB's fallout timeline (7:13) - Advise for Proptech founders & teams banking with SVB (11:27) - Impact to investor sentiment (13:42) - Feature: HAC -...
State of the Office Market and Remote Work's Impact on Commercial Real Estate and Cities, with VTS CEO & Founder Nick Romito
March 07, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 70.7 MBNick Romito is the CEO and Founder of VTS, Commercial Real Estate's leading leasing and asset management platform. Under his leadership, VTS has grown to more than 60% of Class A office space in the US and over 12 billion square feet of office, retail, and industrial is managed through the VTS platform globally. (1:23) - State of the Office market (7:20) - Office space in the hybrid work era (11:55) - CRE debt maturity (13:37) - Feature: Raccord - Collect, organize and use CRE data...
State of the Residential Market and How to Build a Public Single-Family Rental Company, with Appreciate President & Renters Warehouse CEO Kevin Ortner
January 31, 2023 12:58 - 46 minutes - 84.7 MBKevin Ortner is the President of Appreciate Holdings and CEO of its operating arm Renters Warehouse. Kevin Ortner is the author of Rent Estate Revolution: Today's Key to Retirement Security, Financial Freedom & the New American Dream. (1:24) - State of the SFR market (4:36) - Strategies for institutional and retail SFR investors (8:43) - Starting an SFR property mgmt. company (13:56) - How to build a vertically integrated real estate tech stack (18:48) - Feature: Lendai - US Mort...
Reinventing Housing & Hotels in the Remote Work Era, with Placemakr CEO and Co-founder Jason Fudin
January 04, 2023 11:59 - 33 minutes - 61.8 MBJason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Placemakr. Placemakr is a tech-enabled real estate and finance optimization platform that partners with developers, property operators, and investors to curate a collection of apartment-like spaces in selected neighborhoods. Their buildings range from brand-new apartments as they’re leasing up to established apartments looking to maximize their value. Jason previously led commercial developments at Vornado Realty. (1:19) - Placemakr's origin...
What's Wrong with Commercial Real Estate Appraisals, with Bowery Valuation Co-CEO Noah Isaacs
December 13, 2022 12:15 - 47 minutes - 87 MBNoah Isaacs is Co-founder and Co-CEO at Bowery Valuation, a commercial real estate appraisal firm that is powering the best-in-class appraisers to help them appraise smarter and faster. Before co-founding Bowery, Noah worked for BBG, valuing over $2.5B worth of commercial real estate in New York. Noah graduated from McGill University with a major in Statistics and a double minor in Operations Management and Labor-Management Relations. He has on multiple occasions lectured at Columbi...
How Commercial Real Estate Can Unlock the Clean Energy Revolution, with Peak Power CSO Imran Noorani
November 11, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 74.8 MBLearn More: 💚Peak Power's website 💚Peak Power on Twitter (@peakpower_inc) 💚Peak Power on LinkedIn Imran Noorani is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Peak Power, a Canadian company that is putting commercial and industrial buildings at the center of the clean energy revolution. Featured: 💚Virtuance (website): Real Estate Photography & 3D Tours at Scale 💚Tangent on LinkedIn 💚Tangent on Twitter 💚Edward Cohen on Twitter (1:38) - Imran Noorani's background: from charging a...
MetaProp's Co-Founder Zach Aarons on How to Raise VC in a Recession, Public & Private Proptech Valuations, Adam Neumann + a16z new Flow & Most Proptech Friendly Cities
August 30, 2022 11:30 - 53 minutes - 97.8 MBZach Aarons has been working at the intersection of real estate and venture capital for the past decade. Zach is the most active early-stage PropTech investor in the United States, having funded over 60 startups in the space as an individual and 150 startups through MetaProp NYC’s venture capital funds. Zach also teaches Real Estate at Columbia Grad School and is a published author with his book Proptech 101. Zach has also worked on large scale mixed-use development projects in citi...