Fried on Business - 05.23.2019 - Kris Thompson of Vizzda and Memorial Day Weekend
Top CRE Firms Are Using Vizzda
Jim and Wanda talk with Kris Thompson, Co-Founder and CEO of Vizzda (Visual Data). Vizzda is an information provider to the commercial real estate industry, tracking sales, debt, and new projects. Vizzda is used by the top CRE firms in the industry because of its speed, accuracy, and superior contact information.
Kris Thompson started in the industry as a land broker in Phoenix, Arizona, working with private and publicly traded office, industrial, retail, and multifamily developers, as well as the national home builders. Kris, and co-founding partner, Hadden Schifman, saw a need for faster, more reliable data, and had each developed their own information platforms.
In 2011, in the midst of the Great Recession, Kris and Hadden merged their platforms to create Vizzda.
PLUS:
Jim and Wanda talk Memorial Day Weekend plans, Andreas Senie from CRE Collaborative calls in, they go through the top 10 things that annoy us about technology, the top 10 best things about working at McDonalds, and Wanda quizzes Jim with some of music’s best first lines.
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Jim Fried has been a real estate business person since 1980 and has had his own radio show since 2009.
Mr. Fried specializes in capitalizing commercial real estate transactions, unearthing urban land opportunities and is also a private lender.
He has been active in the real estate industry for many years as a financial intermediary, broker and investor. He has experience with many property types including, but not limited to: apartments, condominiums, retail centers, office buildings, industrial parks and health care – with a special focus on memory care.
Jim has closed over $3BB in real estate transactions during his career in markets across the eastern US.
Jim uses his communication skills to inform and entertain on his weekly podcast show – Fried on Business. Of course, the show discusses real estate, but he also tackles issues such as branding, sports business, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, public private partnerships as well as health and wellness.
He is also a mentor to many up and coming people in the real estate industry through his membership on the Board of The University of Florida’s Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies.
Mr. Fried is a winner of the Miami-Dade Public School Alumni Achievement Award.
Contact Jim via email at jim@friedonbusiness.com