Zeus Living

“And I remember of those 25 meetings, I had 20 follow-up meetings set up after just sort of talking through the idea in the market.”

“There was a bit of a difference between pitching and fundraising on the West Coast and in New York. And I think it's the LP base with the East coast investors. A lot of them are all very familiar with real estate. Often they've made a lot of money out of real …”

“The way I would offer this is I would offer to Sign a lease with the homeowner, and then I realized I would have captive inventory, and I could solve the problem on the demand side.”

“It's harder to scale than a pure software play because we are acquiring and creating physical things. You know, we can't just add servers and increase our database size. When we rewrite code, we also have to rewrite processes in the real world with how we do t…”

“With Zeus, we did a lot of positioning testing, a lot of language testing. I think we set up 17 landing pages to really hone in on what the value propositions were going to be before we started anything.”

“I've actually started to believe now that if you're doing a startup, almost the only thing that matters is the idea. I used to be one of these people that believed execution was everything and the idea didn't matter.”