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Ryan Williams

Founder & CEO, Ellis · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Williams is the founder and former CEO of Cadre, a digital real estate investing platform acquired by Yieldstreet. He subsequently launched Ellis, an AI-native operations and data platform designed for private credit.

9statements → 5claims → 5claims resolved → 40%fully supported → 4.11/5average certainty → 1.89/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ryan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
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.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 15:44 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Cadre created an early version of the first real estate secondary market.
“What we did was we created an early version of the first ever secondary market for real estate.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 17:08 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ryan Williams on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ryan Williams said on Masters of Scale that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
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.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 15:44 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Opinion
Williams argues real estate is the most important asset class for wealth.
“The more I realized that it was the most important asset class to own, to build long-term wealth. Yet very few people were able to actually own it, especially people such myself.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 9:14 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Assertion Partly supported
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.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 12:55 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Assertion Partly supported
Blackstone purchased thousands of residential homes weekly during Williams's tenure.
“We were buying thousands of homes, you know, on a weekly basis.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 13:34 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Assertion Contradicted
Cadre created an early version of the first real estate secondary market.
“What we did was we created an early version of the first ever secondary market for real estate.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 17:08 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Assertion Supported
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.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 22:15 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Disclosure
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.”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 25:24 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Insight
Vinod Khosla says a founder's top skill is knowing whose advice matters.
“Vinod was great in that he gave me this advice that still resonates with me today, which is the most important attribute in his mind of an entrepreneur is who do you listen to for what advice?”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 26:44 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale
Disclosure
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…”
Ryan Williams Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 6:13 Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Building a dynamic network of mentors, with Cadre's Ryan Williams | Masters of Scale Feb 13, 2025 29m
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