The Quiet Rise of the Accidental Tech Company
A conversation with Pathfinder Partners' Managing Director, Matt Quinn, on tech, restraint, and the choice not to become an accidental tech company.
Field Notes from the Best "Tech" Conference in the West (*Cough* It Was a Real Estate Conference)
Are AI tools the new COVID toilet paper? A postcard from IMN CFO & COO West, where every panel was about AI and nobody mentioned cap rates once.
Building the Standard: Why We Built symmetRE, and Why It's More Relevant Than Ever
Real estate doesn't have a software problem. It has a foundation problem. The story of two finance guys and a fintech architect who set out to fix it, and why the case is stronger now than when we started.
You’re Probably Playing the Wrong Game
A conversation with Magma Equities’ Head of Portfolio Management, Mike Wagar, on tech, trust, and building a future-proof investment firm
MCP, Explained for Real Estate
Most AI writing in real estate stops at "you need clean data" and ends with a vendor recommendation. This starts where that thinking stops.
Can AI Fix Real Estate Data If We Haven’t Defined It Yet?
At RETCON this week, a panel on the future of multifamily data kept circling one issue. The industry's biggest challenge isn't access to data—it's the lack of shared structure around how it's defined. The same metric, three different answers, depending on where it came from.