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This blog post helps highlight a few deep dives into real estate & housing marketplaces that we've had with founders from marketplaces like Trulia, Zillow, Zumper, and Pacaso. We recommend referencing these past group chats, recap posts in the community, and following these leaders if you're interested in learning more about real estate & housing marketplaces.
Pete Flint is the former founder & CEO of Trulia, which was a leading real estate marketplace that was eventually acquired by Zillow. Pete joined us for a group chat to share the founding story for Trulia, how they initially got started, more about the competitive nature with the market at the time, about the eventual acquisition by Zillow, shared some of his key learnings now looking back, and we had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Pete here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Spencer Rascoff is the Co-founder & former CEO of Zillow, which is the leading residential real estate marketplace. Spencer joined us for a group chat to share the founding story for Zillow, how they solved for the cold start problem using Zestimate, walked us through his journey as the CEO scaling it being the market leader, shared some of his key learnings, tips for founders building marketplaces in real estate & housing, and we had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Spencer here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Anthemos Georgiades is the CEO of Zumper, which is a housing marketplaces that's used by over 70+ million renters a year. Anthemos joined us for a group chat where we got to learn more about the founding story for Zumper, did a deep dive into it as a leading housing marketplace, got to learn about their growth, what the fundraising journey has been like raising $178M+ from top investors, Anthemos shared tips for founders building in real estate & housing, and we had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Anthemos here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Austin Allison is the Co-founder & CEO of Pacaso, which is a leading real estate marketplace for second home co-ownership. Austin joined us for a group chat where we got to learn more about his previous experience starting dotloop (acquired by Zillow), what some of his key learnings were, the founding story for Pacaso, the first steps that they took to start it as a marketplace, did an overview & deep dive into it as a leading marketplace for second home co-ownership today, got to learn more about their growth, how they’ve raised $240M+ from top investors, and also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Austin here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
The founders above have been incredibly generous in contributing their time to share more about their experience, insights, and learnings with the Everything Marketplaces community. We'd like to mention a huge thanks to them for doing so and also actively supporting founders in the community. Hopefully the deep dives are helpful for those that are building real estate & housing marketplaces and looking to learn from leaders in the space.
Want to connect with other marketplace founders & teams building in this space? We shared a real estate & housing marketplaces connect thread in the community here. You can also join the discussion around this post in the community here.
