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How to Scale Commercial Real EstateBlending Asset Classes: How PlaceMakr is Changing the Real Estate GameToday’s guest is Jason Fudin. Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Placemakr, a mixed-use multifamily operator. Show summary: In this podcast episode, Jason Fudin, CEO and co-founder of PlaceMaker, discusses their unique business model that blends different asset classes to create value in real estate. They offer a hospitality living or flex living model, similar to private student housing, and a pop-up hotel model where they partner with developers to run a subsection of new apartment buildings as furnished units during the lease-up period. Jason explains thei...2023-09-2122 min
Tangent 💚 ProptechReinventing Housing & Hotels in the Remote Work Era, with Placemakr CEO and Co-founder Jason FudinJason 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 approach2023-01-0433 min
STR Data Lab™ by AirDNAJason Fudin: Where is the Future of Real Estate Headed?This week Jamie Lane sits down with the Co-Founder and CEO of Placemakr, Jason Fudin, and they walk through Placemakr’s multiple business models. Placemakr has a future-focused model and a few different strategies on how they plan to get there. From pop-up hotels to short-term rentals to mid-term rentals and more, Placemakr is adapting to the way we have started to live and travel.Jason navigated through COVID, and his business succeeded because they could lean into different strategies and quickly adapt. Is this the future of real estate? Will more competitors join Pl...2022-11-1734 min
Transform It ForwardThe future of hospitality in a post-pandemic world | Jason FudinIn this special panel episode of Transform It Forward, Paul sits down with two of his colleagues at Axway to discuss their top predictions for the world of tech, AI and more in 2022. Along with Vince Padua, EVP, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at Axway and Brian Pagano, Chief Catalyst, VP of Catalysts at Axway, Paul explores the possibilities for everything from cloud technology to APIs and more. The panelists discuss a wide variety of topics including “data fabric” as a popular buzzword for 2022, the metaverse and the need for a zero-trust approach to security. Listen in to catch a gl...2022-10-2027 min
LODGING On DemandLodging On Demand — Episode 26: Holiday Travel TrendsThe holiday travel season is fast approaching and hoteliers are preparing to welcome travelers looking to get back out on the road to see friends and family and fit in end-of-the-year trips. In this episode, LODGING Editor Christine Killion spoke with Jason Fudin, co-founder and CEO of WhyHotel, about the booking trends he’s seeing as 2022 approaches, how his company is preparing for holiday travelers, and the opportunities he sees for the industry during this upcoming season and beyond.
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Say Yes To TravelAdding Flexibility to an Archaic Real Estate LandscapeOn this episode of Say Yes To Travel, Host Sarah Dandashy talked with Jason Fudin, Co-Founder and CEO of WhyHotel, a hospitality platform, and operator focusing on multifamily buildings. It operates pop-up hotels out of the vacancy of newly built luxury apartments during the initial lease-up process. They talked about Fudin’s career, his time at Vornado Realty, and WhyHotel.Fudin’s background is in high-rise institutional real estate development. He worked on large real estate developments for Vornado Realty that at times were worth more than $2 billion. Focusing on innovation realty, he tended to work with comp...2021-10-0124 min
Somewhat Frank#0012 – Could You Survive Without Email?Frank Gruber and co-host John Guidos talk about whether they could live without email and how society is changing with the elimination of the landline and a “home phone.” The discussion was loosely based on the latest newsletter which is shared below. I saw a story recently about Away Luggage and how they recently ousted their co-founder and CEO Steph Korey over her use of the communication tool Slack to intimidate employees. Away Luggage employees don’t use email, limiting communications to Slack’s public channels. While Slack does offer direct message functionality, the company, like others, utilizes mostly...2019-12-2030 min
Lodging LeadersLet’s Stay Together: New design concepts connect small-group travelers and local communitiesIn the 19th and early-20th centuries, hotels in America offered more than room and board. They defined a community by attracting crowds to their lobbies and restaurants and establishing themselves as vital centers of civic life, writes A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, author of “Hotel: An American Story.” “Hotels,” writes Sandoval-Strausz, “were points of contact between local communities and the larger society beyond.” As the saying goes, “Everything old is new again.” Modern-day hotels are returning to the communal spirit that early accommodations depended on to attract business from travelers and locals alike. In today’s epi...2019-12-1118 min
DC EntrepreneurJason Fudin, CEO of WhyHotel, hotel pop-upGeorge speaks with Jason Fudin CEO and co-founder of WhyHotel, an alternative lodging service that operates pop-up hotels in newly built, luxury apartment buildings. His startup recently secured $10 million in Series A funding from Highland Capital Partners after scoring $3.9 million in seed funding earlier this year. WhyHotel has properties in DC and Baltimore and is expanding into Ballston Quarter, Centro Arlington and The Boro in Tysons. Send us a textSupport the show2019-02-2151 min
Hospitality Property SchoolWhyHotel - Jason Fudin (CEO Co-founder) Interview | Ep. #120With businesses such as Airbnb, Tripping.com and HomeAway, entering the hospitality property marketplace, the face of traditional hotels, resorts and bed and breakfast is changing and quality is becoming even more important.So, you might ask yourself “what is the future going to bring?”With this in mind, today I am going to be chatting with Jason Fudin, the CEO and co-founder of WhyHotel to find out about his unique hospitality property concept – pop-up hotels.2018-10-2322 min
Hospitality Property SchoolWhyHotel - Jason Fudin (CEO Co-founder) Interview | Ep. #120With businesses such as Airbnb, Tripping.com and HomeAway, entering the hospitality property marketplace, the face of traditional hotels, resorts and bed and breakfast is changing and quality is becoming even more important.So, you might ask yourself “what is the future going to bring?”With this in mind, today I am going to be chatting with Jason Fudin, the CEO and co-founder of WhyHotel to find out about his unique hospitality property concept – pop-up hotels.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contac...2018-10-2324 min
The Daily Grind PodcastEp #216: Why Hotel, Jason FudinJason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of WhyHotel. Prior to WhyHotel, Jason was the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Vornado Realty Trust where he worked on large asset repositioning and developing innovative commercial real estate concepts for the organization. Over his career, Jason has managed commercial real estate development projects valued at over $2 billion and has worked in development, acquisitions, and capital markets. He has his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Management from McGill University and his M.S. in Finance and Real Estate from American University.2018-09-0325 min
Rudy Maxa's World3 August 2019 – RMWorldTravel - Hour 2
— Topics & Guests on this hour of RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa include:
Seg 1 – Robert, Mary and Rudy Show Open plus National Watermelon Day’s Stephanie Barlow
Seg 2 – Write-Stuff – Professor David Mould describes his people travels through exotic Indian Ocean countries
Seg 3 – Robert Moss talks great places for BBQ across America and the many regional differences
Seg 4 – Heard of pop-up hotels? Jason Fudin explains his ambitions
Seg 5 – Dr. Phyllis Kozarsky of the CDC shares some of the “germiest” places every traveler should think about1970-01-0100 min