Zero Down Is a Long Term Holder of Homes?

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The fund that we run is a five to seven year fund, and we acanu tack about the fun ril. So zero down is actually two businesses. Like so we had a tech company and what is called a propco, a property company. The property company is actually a fund that goes and buys houses and holds them. And the fund has a lot of interostructure. It has like legal ordeed, external fund administratio. It has back up servicers. Ah, and and all that stuff helps now in terms of a, in terms of where the market's going.

Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits.

You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is ZeroDown?

1:50 - How did they test the idea?

3:50 - What did they learn from companies that failed in the space?

8:00 - Breaking down the product

11:25 - ZeroDown's customers

13:35 - Expanding to other markets

15:50 - What if a downturn happens?

17:10 - ZeroDown's hiring strategy

20:10 - What are their hardest technical challenges?

22:05 - ZeroDown's breadth and product strategy

26:40 - Customer interviews

28:35 - Should everyone own a house?

29:50 - Home ownership in the future

32:45 - Build something you really want to see in the world

34:40 - Working with his cofounders was the most important consideration