Tangent 💚 Proptech
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How Commercial Real Estate Can Unlock the Clean Energy Revolution, with Peak Power CSO Imran Noorani
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11/11/22 • 40 min
Learn 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 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
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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:
💚Bowery Valuation's website
Featured:
💚Transform 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:
💚Edward Cohen on Twitter
💚Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
💚Zach Aarons on Twitter
💚Tangent on LinkedIn
💚Tangent on Twitter
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Reinventing Housing & Hotels in the Remote Work Era, with Placemakr CEO and Co-founder Jason Fudin
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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:
💚Jason Fudin on LinkedIn💚Placemakr's website
💚Job openings at Placemakr (link)
💚Placemakr on LinkedIn
Feature:
💚Prophia (website) - Access validated commercial real estate data in real-time
Connect with Tangent:
💚Edward Cohen on Twitter
💚Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
💚Tangent on LinkedIn
💚Tangent 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:
💚Zach Aarons on Twitter
💚MetaProp's website
💚Zach's book Proptech 101
Featured:
💚Market Stadium (site): Optimize Your Real Estate Market Due Diligence
Other Resources:
💚Think Again by Adam Grant
Connect with Tangent:
💚Edward Cohen on Twitter
💚Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
💚Tangent on LinkedIn
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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:
💚Kevin Ortner on LinkedIn💚Appreciate's website
💚Rent Estate Revolution by Kevin Ortner (on Amazon)
Feature:
💚Lendai - US Mortgage for Foreign Investors (Apply here today)
Connect with Tangent:
💚Edward Cohen on Twitter
💚Edward Cohen on LinkedIn
💚Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
💚Tangent on LinkedIn
💚Tangent on Twitter
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The Real Deal's Amir Korangy on the Future of Real Estate Media, Building Hybrid Real Estate Communities & AI Opportunities & Threats
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07/27/23 • 57 min
Amir 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 questions as to the reality of real estate in the city and the country, complementing to their theoretical framework.
💚Learn more:
➡️ The Real Deal' site
➡️ Amir Korangy's Wikipedia
💚Feature:
➡️ PRN - Parking Reform Network - Education about the impact of parking policy on urban life & housing. - Visit website➡️ Blueprint (BlueprintVegas.com/Tangent for ticket discount) - Most global event of Proptech innovators leading the charge in changing the built world in Las Vegas this September.
💚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
(2:26) - Twitter / X & Threads, Elon & Zuck
(8:25) - Proptech & Contech sales on Social Media
(9:54) - #REtwit - Real Estate community's Twitter / X home
(11:50) - Parking Reform Network - Education about the impact of parking policy on urban life & housing.
(15:27) - Real Estate Business ed on TikTok, LinkedIn, Youtube, Instagram
(21:09) - The Real Deal's community & multichannel
(26:40) - The Real Deal's Dotcom bubble launch
(27:48) - AI Opportunities & Threats for Media
(30:33) - Zach's VC wins
(37:35) - Feature: Blueprint - Largest event of Proptech innovators in Las Vegas on Sep. 11th-13th
(39:41) - AI & Copyright
(44:00) - AI-generated history, education & religion
(53:41) - Collaboration Superpower: Nick Denton (Gawker)
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.
How Construction Tech is Revolutionizing Commercial Real Estate Development, with Rabbet CEO Will Mitchell
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03/27/22 • 23 min
Tangent on LinkedIn
Tangent on Twitter
To learn more:
Rabbet (website)Will Mitchell on social: LinkedIn
Also featured:
Knock - Residential leasing proptech with self-touring technologySupportive Housing Network of NY - Collective effort to end homelessness among the most vulnerable New Yorkers
Tangent on LinkedIn
Tangent on Twitter
Learn more:
Dr. Josh Harris' LinkedIn
Featured Stimulus:Rock the Vote
Other Links:
The Great Indoors by Emily Anthes
1:50 - Antifragile Survivors and the Role of Extreme Events
8:50 - Future of Student Housing & Economies of College Towns
16:27 - Why Our Physical and Digital Worlds Won't Converge Just Yet
22:07 - Stimulus: Rock the Vote - Digital Volunteer for the Upcoming Elections
23:31 - Do Vertical Cities Have an Advantage Over Horizontal Cities Coming out of the Pandemic?
30:02 - Survivorship Effect: History is Written by the Winners & the Survivors
35:34 - The Future of Work: Will FOMO Bring Us Back to the Office?
41:46 - Discomfort Zone : Why Dr. Harris Ditched His Airline Status Fever
45:15 - Advise to a 20-year old starting their career in Real Estate Development
Future of Office | WeWork, Adam Neumann, & the Great Startup Delusion, with WSJ Best-seller Author Eliot Brown
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12/20/23 • 46 min
Eliot 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.
(2:10) - From The Cult of We to WeCrashed
(3:42) - Importance of the book and it's lessons
(6:18) - WeWork's board of directors & enablers
(8:02) - Valuations: Real Estate vs. Tech
(14:20) - HostAI - (site) AI-powered guest messaging & Airbnb rental software
(16:23) - Where did it all go down hill for Adam's WeWork
(19:15) - WeWork's most impactful tricks
(24:16) - Cult of the Founder & power of storytelling
(40:14) - WeWork's tech acquisitions
(43:29) - Private vs. Public market frenzy
💚 Learn more:
➡️ The Cult of We's site
➡️ Eliot Brown on X
➡️ Get The Cult of We book on Amazon
➡️ Get The Cult of We book on Bookshop
💚 Feature:
➡️ HostAI's site - AI-powered guest messaging for Airbnb hosts & boutique hotels
💚 Connect with Tangent:
➡️ Edward Cohen on LinkedIn➡️ Edward Cohen on X
➡️ Jeff Berman on LinkedIn
➡️ Jeff Berman on X
➡️ Zach Aarons on LinkedIn
➡️ Tangent on LinkedIn
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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 | It's Not a Mortgage, It's Not Renting, It's Acre, with Acre Homes CEO & Co-founder Mike Schneider
Tangent 💚 Proptech
09/12/23 • 38 min
Mike 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 during variable interest rate environment
(8:59) - Opportunity residents & investors
(10:19) - Market growth
(10:54) - Taking the Tesla approach: 10x better than mortgage
(12:48) - Buying a home with a partner
(15:28) - Acre Homes price point
(16:47) - Feature: Blueprint
(17:52) - Rent-to-own, buy before you sell, Home Equity products.
(21:41) - Challenges of mortgages & bias in home appraisals
(25:07) - Generating returns in Single family homes
(25:42) - North Carolina ecosystem: Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle
(29:51) - US cities transport options
(33:26) - Collaboration Superpower: Steve Jobs
(38:57) - Discomfort Zone: Is Built-to-rent overrated?
💚 Learn more:
➡️ Acre Homes (site)
➡️ Mike Schneider on LinkedIn
💚 Feature:
➡️ Blueprint (BlueprintVegas.com/Tangent for ticket discount) - Most global event of Proptech innovators leading the charge in changing the built world in Las Vegas this September.
💚 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.
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How many episodes does Tangent 💚 Proptech have?
Tangent 💚 Proptech currently has 66 episodes available.
What topics does Tangent 💚 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 💚 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 💚 Proptech?
The average episode length on Tangent 💚 Proptech is 36 minutes.
How often are episodes of Tangent 💚 Proptech released?
Episodes of Tangent 💚 Proptech are typically released every 15 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of Tangent 💚 Proptech?
The first episode of Tangent 💚 Proptech was released on Oct 1, 2020.
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