2025: A Year Through the Looking Glass
Reflections on AI, PropTech, and the Future of Venture Capital
The Real Estate Rails I Predicted in 2018 Are Finally Here.
The Rails Are Finally Shifting in Real Estate
Proptech
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The Strategic Value of Compute: Why Only Two Nations Can Lead
Reinforces the U.S.–China framing.
Future
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The Real Estate Tech Graveyard: Why Most Tools Die and How Yours Can Survive
Halloween Edition, 2025
Proptech
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Future-Proof or Fall Behind
From softball fields to spreadsheets — thinking about my kids, their future, and the realignment already underway.
Future
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The AI Ouroboros: How Big Tech Created a Trillion-Dollar Feedback Loop
A look inside the self-reinforcing system shaping the next decade of technology.
Growth
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Why Fall Is the Smart Time to Launch Your PropTech MVP
Fall won’t make your product better. It’ll make your timing sharper.
Growth
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Startup Spotlight: Boardy.AI What I Learned from Letting an AI Make My Introductions
The Human Algorithm: Connection builds trust. Trust creates obligation. The sequence still starts with people.
Growth
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75% Can't Tell What's Real? Why AI-Generated Posts Are Eroding Trust in Social Media, According to Global Surveys
Why the next digital boom won’t be about growth, but belief
Future
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A Zillion Pillows Owns the First Question
The portal doesn’t show listings. Now Zillow will shapes decisions.
Proptech
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Part II: Will Compass Sunset Anywhere’s Brands and Spark Another Boutique Boom?
The consolidation play that could redefine brokerage, and the opening it creates for boutiques.
Growth
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Kaz Nejatian’s Mandate: Turning iBuying Into Housing Infrastructure
Why the next phase of iBuying is about liquidity, trust, and scale
Proptech
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Quantum RE: Where to Invest, Who Benefits, and Why It Matters
Quantum computing is triggering the next real estate wave - one that will reshape where we build, what we make, and who profits.
Future
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The Government Loves Stablecoins Now. Seriously.
The GENIUS Act greenlights branded currency. Is your brand ready?
Future
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Adapt or Die: MLSes' New Love Affair with AI
Every MLS leader should understand MCP before someone else builds the first server without you.
Proptech
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