Ryan Williams
person on 2 shows · 7 statements across 1 episodes · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2018
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
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Ryan Williams founded Cadre to be the Blackstone for everyday investors.
“CADRE is a technology driven real estate investment platform. I started the business to democratize access to real estate and ultimately alternative investments. And you know, it's a platform where people can log in, they can invest in either single real estat…”
Williams acquired thousands of residential units as a side hustle in finance.
“We started buying more homes, thousands of units we acquired. Now this was sort of my night job. My day job was working in finance to pay off my student loans.”
Blackstone purchased thousands of residential homes weekly during Williams's tenure.
“We were buying thousands of homes, you know, on a weekly basis.”
Cadre secured its first real estate asset through partner Jared Kushner.
“The first actual asset was an asset that I was able to secure vis-a-vis a relationship with Jared Kushner. Who was one of my earliest partners as well.”
Cadre secured a $250 million commitment from Goldman Sachs.
“We secured a two hundred fifty million dollar commitment from Goldman you know, the institution. And then they had about a thousand sub advisors and clients beneath that commitment.”
The Soros family and Mark Cuban were major backers of Cadre.
“We also had the Soros family, who was one of our biggest backstop partners, and Mark Cuban, who I communicated with on a weekly basis.”