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Welcome to the latest installment of That Real Estate Tech Guy! We’re talking with Paul Wakim, a tech entrepreneur that started a dispositions platform for real estate investors to sell properties to buyers, and connect with other top investors across the country. Jordan and Paul discuss the importance of a powerful network, as well as leveraging the power of your buyers list while also keeping it secure.  

From the onset, Paul set out to make a professional real estate investors dispo platform, one that provides investors with complete control over the investment process. 

“We’re trying to push our customer, and the real estate investor community, to realize that if you have a deal, and it’s a good deal, sure somebody is going to buy it. But if you’re not the top authority in your market, you probably don’t have as good a relationship with the top buyers in your market. We’ve created a way for you connect and work with somebody like that on Twnsqr.” 

Paul goes on to explain the three ways you can use the platform: you can send deals to buyers, send your deals to a closed, exclusive marketplace, or you can send your deals to other users on the platform to see if they have the right buyer. It’s always been important to the founder that users of TwnSqr maintain complete control over their buyers list the entire time. 

“You have complete control. There are some competitors in our space that have a model where you upload your buyers list, and everybody else on the platform automatically has access to all of those buyers that you upload. And we're sometimes mistaken to have the same exact business model. TwnSqr offers the ability to control your deal and  the ability to control your buyers list.” 

Tune into the episode to hear more about why TwnSqr is a perfect platform for new investors that want to leverage the credibility of their peers to make more money, as well as what technology products Paul considers must-haves. Hint: it’s not just smrtPhone ;)

About Paul Wakim & TwnSqr
Paul Wakim got started in the real estate industry in 2016 right out of college: he and his girlfriend Shannon (now wife) started a real estate photography business with a single drone that gave Paul as a graduation gift. Paul absorbed tons of knowledge about real estate investing from podcasts, agents, and the investors he met via their business, so a year later he decided to get his real estate license. Through being an agent, it dawned on him – there is no real estate without a seller, and all the sellers he met were selling their homes for the same 5 or 6 reasons.

In 2018, Paul taught himself how to code in Python to create an algorithm to predict who was going to sell their home by identifying people who showed signs of those 5 or 6 common selling traits. He met his friend and co-founder Mitch Tracy while rock climbing, and by mid-2019 Mitch had quit his job to join TwnSqr full-time to refine and drastically improve the algorithm.

Through trial and error, Paul and Mitch ended up with the version of TwnSqr that we have today – the premiere off-market property dispositions tool that connects real estate investors with one another and, eventually, the largest institutional buyers in the world. The ultimate goal is to support sellers, investors and buyers of all sizes through world class technology!

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. News was right back up to a dull roar this week, so we did our best to trim and hone and just bring you the most important things.

Here's the rundown:

• David Dobrik stepped down from Dispo, the photo-sharing app he co-created, this past week after allegations came out about him. We talked about the venture capital angle, since early-stage investors in the app reactively distanced from their investments. Could this set precedent or have a chilling effect on celebrity-startups?
• Robinhood filed privately to go public! So, it's happening everyone. At long last, one of Silicon Valley's hottest companies is kicking off its IPO process. We're hype, you're hype, and we had some jokes.
• And in other mega-unicorn news, it appears that Microsoft is tempted to plonk down $10 billion for Discord. Why, you ask? Well why not. It's just $10 billion from Microsoft's $1,780 billion valuation. Or around half a percent.
• Sticking to the $10 billion-and-greater category, Plaid could be raising $600 million at a valuation of $10 billion to $15 billion. That's a lot of money. Danny, however, has some doubts.
• Also, Plaid has announced the inaugural cohort of its FinRise accelerator, a program focused on helping fintech startups led by underrepresented founders.
• And then there were a few rounds to chat about. Namely the intensely interesting Bevy deal, and Ro raising $500 million at a $5 billion  valuation.
• And to wrap, Natasha and Alex shared their favs from TechCrunch's massive Y Combinator demo day coverage. Which you can read here, and here.

Credits: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo. We are produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here.

If you are paying attention to Y Combinator's demo day this week, our primer is here. And our Friday news roundup is here. With that, let's get into the news:

• Ironsource is going public via a SPAC. It's worth even more than eToro, which is also going public via a SPAC. It's a big quarter for Israeli tech.
• Sivo is a hot startup that you're going to hear more about. Also a lesson here for founders, if you want attention, share numbers.
• Deliveroo has a price for its IPO, and the company could be worth as much as £8.8 billion. Even more, the European delivery giant has seen huge demand gains thus far in 2021.
• On the month front, Nuvemshop has raised $90 million, M Capital Management has raised $30.85 million for a new fund, and Aldea Ventures has raised a €60 million investment vehicle.
• Remember Dispo? The hot photo-taking service? Read this.
• And finally. Happify Health has raised a $73 million Series D, while Clarify Health has put together a $115 million round of its own.

Credits: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo. We are produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.

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This week on Leveling Up with Benjamin Banks, we have on a very special guest and he goes by name of Chris Dontrell. He has done voice over work for one of the biggest animes of all time, Dragonball Super, and is voicing Ulgar in the new anime Astra Lost In Space which you can stream on the Funimation App. Join us as Chris talks about what its like to voice over such an iconic anime franchise, what its like being on set on some of the biggest tv shows on cable and the experience of filming on a big budgeted hollywood movie like Batman v Superman. Listeners are in for a treat this week, so prepare yourself!