EP 113 : Building for Real Estate - Ajay Kumar (Co-founder & CEO, TheHouseMonk) | Vertical SaaS | Zero to One | Growth

Ajay Kumar is a serial entrepreneur. He founded Cozee Homes and sold it a brokerage firm and then went on to found TheHouseMonk, a service that provides a growth and management platform for the rental real estate industry. In this episode he spoke about the challenges and the opportunities in the real estate market, the nuances of building for this market and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa.

Key Highlights:

(00:00) Introduction 

(01:41) Going from Idea to Product to Company

(05:41) Trends in the real estate space

(09:24) Use cases TheHouseMonk solves

(10:57) Nuances of building for Real Estate

(12:02) Impact of covid on the Real Estate industry

(17:08) Challenges and Opportunities in the Real Estate Market

(21:42) Being relevant to multiple personas

(25:14) Nuances of working with the Real estate industry

(31:30) High Level Challenges & Next stage of evolution

(37:22) Advice for Founders on discovering problems to solve

(43:02) Building a lifestyle business in SaaS

(47:40) Closing Remarks

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Connect with Ajay:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-kumar-thehousemonk/

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Connect with Us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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