Mina Song
Co-founder & CEO, EliseAI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Minna Song co-founded EliseAI, an enterprise AI platform that automates communications and operational workflows across property management and healthcare. Under her leadership, the company achieved multi-billion-dollar valuation status and raised a $250 million Series E funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Everything Mina Song said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Song: Brookfield Properties uses EliseAI to let one employee manage 10,000 units
“Brookfield properties is another one of our customers. They're building this centralized model that enables a single employee to serve as multiple properties. And they're actually finding that they can get a single employee to work across 10,000 units using AI…”
Song: AI can reduce household spending on housing and healthcare to 20%
“I think if we can take this 42% of what a household spends on housing and healthcare and bring that down to, you know, 20 something percent. That is, I think the, one of the large, most important problems we can solve and more people should be working on it.”
Song: Analysts project US housing construction pipeline will drop 50% by 2026
“And actually, analysts say that the pipeline is shrinking for twenty-twenty-six and beyond, so they said it's gonna drop by about 50%, so we're headed in the completely wrong direction.”
Song: EliseAI aims to enable fully autonomous buildings with zero human management
“Our goal is to enable fully autonomous buildings. So that means an entire portfolio has the ability to run core operations without requiring human intervention at all.”
Song: Real estate jobs will shift to AI-enabled roles rather than disappear
“I think as AI takes over a lot of the communication and logistics, human roles don't all disappear. They just, these sort of AI enabled career paths start to emerge.”
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.”
Song: US needs 2 million new housing units annually to prevent shortfall
“We're about five million housing units short of what we actually need in the country, and we need to add somewhere between 1.8 to two million units per year just to kind of keep that shortage from getting worse, let alone making up for that deficit.”
Song: Nearly half of all rental apartment inquiries receive no response
“So, I'll give you an example, which is almost half of inquiries that go to a rental apartment building Never get responded to.”
Song: EliseAI boosts apartment occupancy by 2% over the market average
“Earlier this year, we provided data to an organization called ALN and found that buildings using RAI had two percent higher occupancy compared to market.”
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.”
Song: Labor is the largest controllable operating expense in property management
“The biggest controllable expense is labor.”
Song: Real estate workers will eventually manage large workforces of AI software
“But I think in the long run, people will be managing big workforces of AI and sort of overseeing these automated systems that are mainly running most of the work.”
Song: Cost of living is the primary reason people forgo having children
“Cost of living is actually one of the, it is the number one reason that people don't have more children.”
Song: AI automation makes short-term rental leases scalable and affordable
“AI doesn't really care if it's signing shorter term leases. It's just doing, you know, it's doing that over and over and it scales. Then you kind of get the benefit for the, both for the landlord and for the consumer that they can be more, They can do it at a …”
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.”
Song: AI-driven treatment plan fulfillment will significantly cut government healthcare costs
“If AI can scale and achieve better Treatment plan fulfillment. That's going to be better for everybody. It's certainly going to save us a lot of costs. You know, it's one of the government's largest expenses. And so we're all paying for that. Those outcomes be…”
Song: EliseAI would have launched in affordable housing first if starting over
“I probably would have started with affordable housing, actually.”
Song: Solving the most complex market segment first eases downstream expansion
“We're actually kind of approaching healthcare in a similar way, which is start with what is the most underserved, because that's where we can have the largest impact. The most underserved and the most complex, because if you sort of solve those problems, then …”
Song: Housing and healthcare consume 42% of household budgets and 40% GDP
“They eat up about 42% of what a typical household makes, and nationally these sectors make up about 40% of the entire GDP.”
Song: EliseAI workflows cut maintenance completion times to under 48 hours
“And we see that some operators with this new, these workflows have cut average work order completion times from Four to five days down to under 48 hours, so that's really meaningful for residents.”
Song: EliseAI cuts apartment listing-to-lease times from 30 to under 14 days
“Actually cuts down average time for our customers from about 30 days from listing an apartment to leasing it to under 14 days because It gives you so much more flexibility to tour around the clock.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mina's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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