GUEST BIO
We are joined in the lab by Pritesh Damani, an engineer, entrepreneur, real estate investor and CEO-Technical Founder at RealtyCrunch. Pritesh who considers himself an engineer by definition loves to make things and already realized early on that he would retire by the time he was 40. He came from a very modest background, had the right people around him and had the uncanny ability to surround himself with the right people in his circle and identify demand in the marketplace which all contributed to get him to where he and his company is today.
RealtyCrunch is the third business that Pritesh started from the ground up. It is a real estate collaboration platform that helps agents understand what their clients need, prioritize what they like, and collaborate with them to close deals faster. The platform is a Pinterest + Trello like collaboration web and mobile app which helps home buyers and real estate agents easily communicate on properties that they add to their wall (dashboard) to help extend the conversation and keep it organized while sourcing through multiple properties — it’s now evolved into a docusign like-pre-filled form application and Pritesh has made it very clear that he will look to continuously evolve the application based on what the marketplace needs. Pritesh espouses work-life integration and believes that if you’re passionate with what you do, then “you’re never working even when you’re working.”
While in the lab with Pritesh, we discover that once you make things (with technology), you can keep making newer, faster, more efficient ways of making them. If you’re a rising entrepreneur looking for the best combination of the start-up culture and how to identify opportunities, you will definitely be empowered with the technical and collaborative insights Pritesh shared with us in the lab.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE
02:35 - Background of the guest
07:02 - Work Life Integration
11:13 - Importance of being surrounded by the right people
15:05 - Experimenting your career in the beginning
16:39 - How the business started
22:33 - Advice to your younger self
KEEPING IT REAL
31:49 - The RealtyCrunch Application
36:49 - Kinds of Forms
42:31 - Knowing business opportunities
50:43 - The Art of War Book
31:59 - How important is Social Media to the business
34:03 - Grabbing listings through social media
50:43 - Listing Your Goals
NOTABLE QUOTES (KEY LESSONS):
“We don’t want to build stuff that people don’t want to use, there are people out there that are just telling us what they need and I think we’re going to listen to them”
“Experiment with your career in the beginning, don’t get stuck with the same thing”
CONNECTING WITH THE GUEST
