Zachary Aarons's guest appearances

Zachary Aarons

New York Launch Pod: A Podcast Highlighting New Start-Ups, Businesses, and Openings in the New York City Area (NY Launch Pod)

Village Global's Venture Stories

Tech Nest: The Proptech Podcast

Reid Hoffman

Bill Gates

Tyler Cowen

Josh Wolfe

Marc Andreessen

Kyle Samani

Dan Zuller

Travis Kling

Jenny Fleiss

Keith Rabois

Cal Newport

Nir Eyal

Ramit Sethi

Peter Thiel

Charles Eisenstein

OwlTail

Learn more about MetaProp: https://www.metaprop.orgFollow MetaProp on Twitter: https://twitter.com/metapropnycConnect with Zach on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachaarons/ Follow Zach on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZacharyAarons 

Learn more about MetaProp: <a href="https://www.metaprop.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.metaprop.org</a> Follow MetaProp on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/metapropnyc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/metapropnyc</a> Connect with Zach on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachaarons/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachaarons/</a> Follow Zach on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ZacharyAarons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ZacharyAarons</a>

S7E71 Interview with Zachary Aarons, Co-Founder of MetaProp

Brad Hargreaves

Erik is joined by Brad Hargreaves (@bhargreaves), founder and CEO of Common and co-founder of General Assembly, and Zach Aarons (@ZacharyAarons), co-founder and partner at MetaProp, a proptech venture fund.The guests explain what exactly proptech is and why it’s an exciting space for entrepreneurs. They go over some of the sub-segments within proptech, some of the existing unicorns in the space, as well as the incumbents that new entrepreneurs might encounter and how they themselves getting involved in the crossover of tech and real estate. Brad explains how his time at General Assembly informed Common and how he “navigated the idea maze.” He points out that there are a lot of adults living with non-family roommates but that virtually none of the existing structures in real estate and property management are set up for that arrangement.They discuss the differences between residential and commercial real estate and why “they’re almost like separate industries." WeWork has even had trouble trying to add residential to their existing commercial business. They also talk about some of their requests for startups in the space and the unique structure of new investment vehicles, given that they are investing in both operating companies and real estate assets and receive returns on each of those investments in the same fund.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Erik is joined by Brad Hargreaves (@bhargreaves), founder and CEO of Common and co-founder of General Assembly, and Zach Aarons (@ZacharyAarons), co-founder and partner at MetaProp, a proptech venture fund. The guests explain what exactly proptech is and why it’s an exciting space for entrepreneurs. They go over some of the sub-segments within proptech, some of the existing unicorns in the space, as well as the incumbents that new entrepreneurs might encounter and how they themselves getting involved in the crossover of tech and real estate. Brad explains how his time at General Assembly informed Common and how he “navigated the idea maze.” He points out that there are a lot of adults living with non-family roommates but that virtually none of the existing structures in real estate and property management are set up for that arrangement. They discuss the differences between residential and commercial real estate and why “they’re almost like separate industries." WeWork has even had trouble trying to add residential to their existing commercial business. They also talk about some of their requests for startups in the space and the unique structure of new investment vehicles, given that they are investing in both operating companies and real estate assets and receive returns on each of those investments in the same fund. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at <a href="http://villageglobal.vc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">villageglobal.vc</a> or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal. Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

A Primer on Real Estate Tech (PropTech) with Zachary Aarons and Brad Hargreaves

Zachary Aarons, Co-Founder and Partner of MetaProp, steps on to the New York Launch Pod to discuss his real estate technology accelerator, venture fund, and advisory business– all wrapped into one. Founded in 2015, Zach and his Co-Founders, Aaron Block and Clelia Peters, realized that entrepreneurs and real estate executives were not connecting with each other. Real estate executives were not able to share their biggest pain points with entrepreneurs and as a result entrepreneurs were designing products that did not fit the needs of the real estate industry. Thus, MetaProp was born to solve that problem. Today, MetaProp has an advisory business that works with some of the largest landlords globally to help navigate real estate technology and has a venture capital fund as well as an accelerator which helps emerging companies navigate the real estate world. How difficult can navigating real estate organizations be? According to Zach when selling real estate software or hardware, a company often has to make four completely different sales within one organization, which includes the building engineer, the asset manager, the Chief Information Officer, and C-Suite executives. Each of the people within the real estate organization that a start-up is selling to may have a completely different motive for either purchasing or not purchasing the technology, and those motives might not even be the same between companies! Listen to the episode to hear how MetaProp has become the ‘nexus’ for real estate technology, how Zach found his way into real estate and real estate investing after launching his own company, and what the future holds for real estate technology.   More on MetaProp: http://www.metaprop.org/ Transcript available here: http://nylaun.ch/MetaPropTr

Zachary Aarons, Co-Founder and Partner of MetaProp, steps on to the New York Launch Pod to discuss his real estate technology accelerator, venture fund, and advisory business– all wrapped into one. Founded in 2015, Zach and his Co-Founders, Aaron Block and Clelia Peters, realized that entrepreneurs and real estate executives were not connecting with each other. Real estate executives were not able to share their biggest pain points with entrepreneurs and as a result entrepreneurs were designing products that did not fit the needs of the real estate industry. Thus, MetaProp was born to solve that problem. Today, MetaProp has an advisory business that works with some of the largest landlords globally to help navigate real estate technology and has a venture capital fund as well as an accelerator which helps emerging companies navigate the real estate world. How difficult can navigating real estate organizations be? According to Zach when selling real estate software or hardware, a company often has to make four completely different sales within one organization, which includes the building engineer, the asset manager, the Chief Information Officer, and C-Suite executives. Each of the people within the real estate organization that a start-up is selling to may have a completely different motive for either purchasing or not purchasing the technology, and those motives might not even be the same between companies! Listen to the episode to hear how MetaProp has become the ‘nexus’ for real estate technology, how Zach found his way into real estate and real estate investing after launching his own company, and what the future holds for real estate technology. More on MetaProp: <a href="http://www.metaprop.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.metaprop.org/</a> Transcript available here: <a href="http://nylaun.ch/MetaPropTr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://nylaun.ch/MetaPropTr</a>

Episode 36: Zachary Aarons Co-Founder and Partner of MetaProp | New York City's Real Estate Technology Accelerator, Venture Fund, and Advisory