real estate

8 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2018 by Alex Rampell · across every show →

Everything said about real estate, oldest first

Nov 29, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rampell: Full-stack models will massively expand the real estate tech market
“A lot of capital has been exploring this space, which allows for just much, much more ambition. So if you were to build Lyft 20 years ago, it would have been a software product that had been sold to taxi companies or taxi dispatch firms. And today they decided…”
Alex Rampell Nov 29, 2018 ▶ 14:45 When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
Nov 29, 2018 bullish
Prediction Held up
Rampell: Consumers will increasingly buy and sell homes directly with companies
“In the future, or even increasingly the present, you're gonna buy your house from, or sell your house to a company.”
Alex Rampell Nov 29, 2018 ▶ 0:07 When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampell: Real estate is one of the best performing historical assets
“And it, it's hard to, it's been one of the best performing asset classes of all time because you have human population growing, you have this migration to cities and that's driving up the asset.”
Alex Rampell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:33 a16z Podcast | Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Walden: Maker will accept real-world assets like gold and real estate
“Maker's sort of a wrapper for all these other asset types, so fiat-backed stablecoins are one type of asset, but there will be others, gold and, you know, real estate, et cetera.”
Jesse Walden Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:46 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
Aug 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Song: Real estate could shift from lowest R&D to top AI spender
“Real estate is so far behind on tech, it actually has the most to benefit from AI. So it maybe is going from the lowest R and D spending to potentially one of the highest spenders on AI.”
Mina Song Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 25:29 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Aug 21, 2025
Insight
Song: Traditional real estate software failed because it couldn't handle operational variability
“In the past, you've really just needed a person because traditional software couldn't handle the variability that was required. So, if you needed a person anyway, there wasn't really a motivation to buy technology.”
Mina Song Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 24:51 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Aug 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Song: Real estate historically underinvests in technology compared to SaaS companies
“Real estate has not invested a ton in technology. So it hasn't gotten a lot of the efficiencies that, you know an internet company or, you know, a SaaS company Could achieve.”
Mina Song Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 8:30 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Opinion
Nejatian: Opendoor erred by acting as a real estate investor instead of software company
“I think that's actually a problem that, that Opendoor has had is that, like, Externally and for, admittedly, for some time internally, the company thought of itself as essentially an investor in a real, like real estate as an asset class, which is not the job …”
Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 8:17 Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
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