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Hussain was the top US loan originator for two straight years

Christopher Hussain · #97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil? · Mar 4, 2025 · at 2:53

Christopher Hussain pitches his mortgage software startup, RealKey, to investors on The Pitch, citing his background in mortgage lending.

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“In fact, I was actually the top loan originator in the U S for two straight years.”

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“In fact, our MVP within only four months, Reach 70,000 MRR and we're raising a million dollars right now to go through and to grow our sales and support team to grow our current market.”
Christopher Hussain Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:15 #97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
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Christopher Hussain Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 21:15 #97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
Disclosure
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“New product is not live in the market. It's going out in Q one. So currently we actually have every, all of our current users are on the old platform.”
Christopher Hussain Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 6:52 #97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
Disclosure
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“So as far as evaluation right now, it's at seven million. We initially raised We did 300 K at three million, we did 500 K at 5,000,700 K at seven million. So we closed that out last August.”
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