Tangent 💚 Proptech - Fastest Start Up to Become a Unicorn in History is a 2nd Home Ownership Proptech, Zillow Lessons, with Pacaso Co-founder Austin Allison

Fastest Start Up to Become a Unicorn in History is a 2nd Home Ownership Proptech, Zillow Lessons, with Pacaso Co-founder Austin Allison

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.

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