Tangent đź’š Proptech
Edward Cohen, Jeff Berman & Zach Aarons
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A podcast community for Proptech and Real Estate leaders, investors, operators and innovators.
A new era is upon us. Tangent💚Proptech unites Proptech founders💡, Real Estate investors and operators🏢, Venture Capital 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.
Join VC investors Jeffrey Berman and Zach Aarons, and Proptech entrepreneur Edward Cohen, to learn about housing innovation, the future of work and climate tech. We examine these themes through interviews and conversations with Proptech CEO's, real estate owners and operators, and venture investors, and how we can leverage tech and collaboration to help solve the housing crisis, figure out the future of work and how to decarbonize the built environment.
If you would like to get your company’s or organization’s mission featured on Tangent, email us at [email protected].
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How Commercial Real Estate Can Unlock the Clean Energy Revolution, with Peak Power CSO Imran Noorani
Tangent đź’š Proptech
11/11/22 • 40 min
Learn More:
đź’šPeak Power's websiteđź’šPeak Power on Twitter (@peakpower_inc)
đź’šPeak 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:
đź’šVirtuance (website): Real Estate Photography & 3D Tours at Scale
đź’šTangent on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on Twitter
đź’šEdward Cohen on Twitter
(1:38) - Imran Noorani's background: from charging a Gameboy to powering commercial real estate
(4:18) - What's the problem with our current building's energy infrastructure and grid system
(8:10) - What economic, environmental and social benefits can commercial real estate owners unlock with Peak Power
(14:25) - Feature: Virtuance - Real Estate Photography & 3D Tours Technology at Scale
(15:34) - What commercial and industrial real estate asset types work best with Peak Power
(18:17) - How are buildings generating carbon emissions and polluting the environment
(20:47) - Prioritizing innovation within the ESG framework
(24:31) - How to finance and find the right partners for a clean energy building retrofit
(30:22) - What can cities learn from Canada's innovation ecosystem?
(34:51) - Future of Cities: What would Imran change about Toronto?
(36:20) - Discomfort Zone: Applying diversity across everything we do
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What's Wrong with Commercial Real Estate Appraisals, with Bowery Valuation Co-CEO Noah Isaacs
Tangent đź’š Proptech
12/13/22 • 47 min
Noah 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 Columbia University, with a primary focus on Proptech and the future of real estate.
(1:36) - State of the Commercial Real Estate market
(8:38) - What's wrong with Commercial Real Estate appraisals?
(13:22) - How Bowery Valuation solves collaboration issues during the appraisal process
(15:56) - Feature - Transform Your City : Create urban spaces that lead to safer, healthier, and greener streets and cities.
(17:17) - The future of Commercial Real Estate appraisal tech: Bowery Valuation's client-facing platform
(21:16) - The 5-day Commercial loan vision
(22:39) - New data sources for appraisals: tenant space usage and carbon emissions.
(24:40) - The state of Office: are appraisers considering conversions or alternative highest and best uses?
(28:24) - Bowery Valuation's fundraising journey: from MetaProp to Camber Creek to Goldman Sachs
(39:56) - Benefits of having a strategically diverse investor stack - LeFrak, Capital One, Alpaca VC, Goldman Sachs, MetaProp, Camber Creek
(42:46) - Future of Cities: What's one aspect of NYC Noah would choose to improve?
(43:24) - Discomfort Zone: How Noah has adapted his leadership approach to empower Bowery's team
Learn More:
đź’šBowery Valuation's website
Featured:
đź’šTransform Your City (website): AI-generated urban spaces to create to safer, healthier, and greener streets and cities.
-To donate and support Transform Your City -> Donate now
Connect with Tangent:
đź’šEdward Cohen on Twitter
đź’šJeff Berman on LinkedIn
đź’šZach Aarons on Twitter
đź’šTangent on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on Twitter
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Reinventing Housing & Hotels in the Remote Work Era, with Placemakr CEO and Co-founder Jason Fudin
Tangent đź’š Proptech
01/04/23 • 33 min
Jason 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 story
(2:56) - Pop-up hotels
(9:16) - Feature: Prophia - Access validated commercial real estate data in real-time
(10:34) - Blending Hospitality and Multifamily
(13:42) - Asset-light vs. asset-heavy approach
(15:56) - Flexible residential buildings with commingled uses
(19:45) - Navigating city regulations and incentives
(23:24) - Office to housing conversions
(27:47) - Future of Cities - Washington DC, a tale of two cities
(28:59) - Discomfort Zone - Building the right team and tech adoption in slow real estate
Learn more:
đź’šJason Fudin on LinkedInđź’šPlacemakr's website
đź’šJob openings at Placemakr (link)
đź’šPlacemakr on LinkedIn
Feature:
đź’šProphia (website) - Access validated commercial real estate data in real-time
Connect with Tangent:
đź’šEdward Cohen on Twitter
đź’šJeff Berman on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on Twitter
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Zach 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 cities like Boston and Los Angeles with Millennium Partners.
Learn More:
đź’šZach Aarons on Twitter
đź’šMetaProp's website
đź’šZach's book Proptech 101
Featured:
đź’šMarket Stadium (site): Optimize Your Real Estate Market Due Diligence
Other Resources:
đź’šThink Again by Adam Grant
Connect with Tangent:
đź’šEdward Cohen on Twitter
đź’šJeff Berman on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on Twitter
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State of the Residential Market and How to Build a Public Single-Family Rental Company, with Appreciate President & Renters Warehouse CEO Kevin Ortner
Tangent đź’š Proptech
01/31/23 • 46 min
Kevin 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 Mortgage for Foreign Investors (Apply here today)
(20:25) - Residential Real Estate data sources
(25:28) - Property condition and appraisals
(27:40) - Appreciate's SPAC
(30:23) - Solving the housing supply and affordability crisis
(36:23) - Get rich slow: Owning rentals and the New American dream
(40:45) - Future of Cities: Minneapolis, MN
(42:35) - Discomfort Zone: Hybrid work
Learn more:
đź’šKevin Ortner on LinkedInđź’šAppreciate's website
đź’šRent Estate Revolution by Kevin Ortner (on Amazon)
Feature:
đź’šLendai - US Mortgage for Foreign Investors (Apply here today)
Connect with Tangent:
đź’šEdward Cohen on Twitter
đź’šEdward Cohen on LinkedIn
đź’šJeff Berman on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on LinkedIn
đź’šTangent on Twitter
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'The Big Short' Investor Steve Eisman on the Housing Market, Becoming a Zillow Bull and Big Short Predictions
Tangent đź’š Proptech
12/22/20 • 28 min
Tangent on LinkedIn
Tangent on Twitter
Learn more:
Michael Lewis' 'The Big Short'
The Big Short (movie)
Steve's Zillow Short Prediction on CNBC
Featured Stimulus:
Project Parachute (https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/)
Project Parachute on the Real Deal
1:21 - 2008 Financial Crisis vs. Pandemic: How is it impacting real estate values differently?
4:16 - Cyclical or Permanent: Transfer of wealth from Commercial to Residential Real Estate
5:38 - Is Washington making the same mistake as ’08?
8:24 - How will home-builders like Lennar perform in a post-vaccine world?
9:30 - Stimulus: Project Parachute, protecting vulnerable NYC renters from eviction
11:01 - Are single-family home rentals here to stay as an investment class?
13:42 - From bear to bull: A Zillow story
16:02 - Steve's Big Short predictions for 2021
17:27 - Is Anti-trust regulation coming for Facebook, Google & Big Tech?
20:21 - Commercial Real Estate REIT's long-term issues
26:06 - Discomfort Zone: Sub-prime mortgage and auto lenders unchecked consumer fraud in ’02
Tech-enabled Mental Health Care in Cities & Stigma Around Substance Use Disorder, with Strive Health VP Benjamin Knafo
Tangent đź’š Proptech
10/09/20 • 37 min
Tangent on LinkedIn
Tangent on Twitter
Learn more:
StriveCares
Featured Stimulus:
RevelAndAwe.com/Tangent
Other Links:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
How to Build Your Emotional PPE?
1:28 - A Mission to Increase Access to Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
4:08 - Residential vs. Real World Habits
8:48 - How Tech is Helping with our Self Care: Silver Lining Post COVID-19
15:23 - Stimulus: Arielle Sadan's Revel & Awe Coaching Company
17:24 - Combating Stigma and Language to Address the Suicide Epidemic
21:00 - Untreated Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders Cost America $700B
21:48 - NIMBY-ism & Education Around Addiction Stigma in Our Neighborhoods
26:10 - Addicted to Tech: Social Media and Smartphone Overuse
30:33 - Discomfort Zone: Benji's Brave and Inspiring Approach to Overcoming His Toughest Period
32:33 - Advice to a 20-year old starting their career in Healthcare Tech
Fastest Start Up to Become a Unicorn in History is a 2nd Home Ownership Proptech, Zillow Lessons, with Pacaso Co-founder Austin Allison
Tangent đź’š Proptech
09/03/21 • 39 min
Austin Allison is the Co-founder and CEO of Pacaso, a service that creates a more accessible category of second-home ownership and that is currently valued at $1BN. As a 2nd time founder after the successful exit of his first proptech company Dootlop to Zillow, Austin shares with us the lessons learnt throughout his entrepreneurial journey - such as what it takes to be a founder, which resources to optimize for, and how to think about industry pain points and TAM - and more broadly, his views on the housing crisis in the US.
To learn more:
Pacaso - The modern way to buy and own a second homeAustin Allison on social: Twitter & Instagram
Also featured:
Culdesac - The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
Supportive Housing Network of NY - Collective effort to end homelessness among the most vulnerable New Yorkers
đź’š Connect with Tangent:
➡️ Edward Cohen on LinkedIn
➡️ Tangent on LinkedIn
Disclaimer: Tangent podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advise. Nothing contained on our program constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer by Tangent, Camber Creek, MetaProp, or any third party guest to buy or sell any securities, public or private, other financial instruments or funds.
Housing Crisis | Using Robots to Build Homes Faster & Cheaper, with BotBuilt CEO Brent Wadas
Tangent đź’š Proptech
08/23/23 • 40 min
Brent 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 10 years in the US Army as Assistant (to the) Regional Manager. Brent is an experienced business entrepreneur with a flair for achieving goals through actions and a passion for bringing dreams into focus.
(1:34) - Brent Wadas' entrepreneurial & military journey
(8:57) - What makes BotBuilt special
(13:52) - Feature: CREx - Makes it easy to get data out of Yardi, Salesforce, and more.
(15:15) - BotBuilt's factories: Durham, NC
(16:56) - Lessons from Katerra's $2 billion saga
(22:29) - Delivering a venture-scale return in Contech
(25:51) - BotBuilt's unit economics & business model
(31:49) - Contech adoption among homebuilders
(34:40) - Collaboration Superpower: William "Wild Bill" Donovan (Head of the OSS, precursor to CIA) - Wiki
(35:54) - Brent's 'Grand Daddy's' influence: 1st Scientific sharing agreement between USA & USSR
đź’š Learn more:
➡️ BotBuilt's site
➡️ Brent's email: [email protected]
➡️ Katerra - Wiki
đź’š Feature:
➡️ CREx (learn more) - Makes it easy to get data out of Yardi, Salesforce, and more.
đź’š Connect with Tangent:
➡️ Edward Cohen on Twitter
➡️ Edward Cohen on LinkedIn
➡️ Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
➡️ Zach Aarons on Twitter
➡️ Tangent on LinkedIn
➡️ Tangent on Twitter
Disclaimer: Tangent podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advise. Nothing contained on our program constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer by Tangent, Camber Creek, MetaProp, or any third party guest to buy or sell any securities, public or private, other financial instruments or funds.
State of Short-term Rentals & Airbnb Regulation, with Hostaway Founder & CEO Marcus Räder
Tangent đź’š Proptech
11/28/23 • 36 min
Marcus 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 Rental industry
(8:37) - Airbnb regulation
(14:32) - Marketplace fee monetization & consumer psychology
(21:28) - Adam Smith's free market, market failure & regulation vs. monopoly
(22:52) - All-in-one vacantion rental software
(29:18) - Role of online travel agencies
(31:26) - Proptech & Travel Tech lessons from EdTech
(34:28) - Collaboration Superpower: Alice Cooper
đź’š Learn more:
➡️ Hostaway's site
➡️ Marcus Räder on LinkedIn
đź’š Connect with Tangent:
➡️ Edward Cohen on LinkedIn➡️ Edward Cohen on Twitter
➡️ Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
➡️ Jeff Berman on Twitter
➡️ Zach Aarons on LinkedIn
➡️ Tangent on LinkedIn
➡️ Tangent on Twitter
Disclaimer: Tangent podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advise. Nothing contained on our program constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer by Tangent, Camber Creek, MetaProp, or any third party guest to buy or sell any securities, public or private, other financial instruments or funds.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Tangent đź’š Proptech have?
Tangent đź’š Proptech currently has 70 episodes available.
What topics does Tangent đź’š Proptech cover?
The podcast is about Fintech, Venture Capital, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, New York City, Housing, Data, Ecommerce, Multifamily, Podcasts, Nyc, Finance, Technology, Data Analytics, Business, Data Science, Global Warming, Airbnb and Sustainability.
What is the most popular episode on Tangent đź’š Proptech?
The episode title 'How Commercial Real Estate Can Unlock the Clean Energy Revolution, with Peak Power CSO Imran Noorani' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Tangent đź’š Proptech?
The average episode length on Tangent đź’š Proptech is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of Tangent đź’š Proptech released?
Episodes of Tangent đź’š Proptech are typically released every 15 days.
When was the first episode of Tangent đź’š Proptech?
The first episode of Tangent đź’š Proptech was released on Oct 1, 2020.
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