DealMakers: Entrepreneur | Startups | Venture Capital
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Benjamin Miller is the cofounder and CEO of Fundrise which offers an alternative to investing in stock and bonds, the first low-cost, and direct private market investment built. The company has crowdfunded over $1.5 billion for itself and also counts with institutional backers such as ReRen.
In this episode you will learn:
Balancing your technical and creative talent
Clickbait versus what really resonates with customers
Embracing one of the most regulated markets
Raising money in China
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For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Benjamin Miller:
Benjamin Miller is the CEO and co-founder of Fundrise, an investment platform on a mission to build a better financial system by empowering the individual.
Right now, that means making real estate investing simpler, smarter and more effective for investors of all sizes. Fundrise is the first investment platform to create a simple, low-cost way for anyone to unlock real estate’s historically consistent, exceptional returns.
By combining innovative technology with world-class active, opportunistic real estate private equity management, Fundrise delivers access to a level of investment performance that only the wealthiest investors have enjoyed — until now.
Founded in 2012, this DC-based startup has now transacted on nearly $5 billion of real estate and manages more than $1 billion in assets for its more than 130,000 investors.
Benjamin Miller has nearly 20 years of experience in real estate and finance, spending time as Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners and President of Western Development Corporation, prior to founding Fundrise.
Connect with Benjamin Miller:
* Linkedin
* Crunchbase
* Twitter
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone,
In this episode you will learn:
Balancing your technical and creative talent
Clickbait versus what really resonates with customers
Embracing one of the most regulated markets
Raising money in China
SUBSCRIBE ON:
For a winning deck, take a look at the pitch deck template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel (see it here) that I recently covered. Thiel was the first angel investor in Facebook with a $500K check that turned into more than $1 billion in cash.
Moreover, I also provided a commentary on a pitch deck from an Uber competitor that has raised over $400 million (see it here).
Remember to unlock for free the pitch deck template that is being used by founders around the world to raise millions below.
About Benjamin Miller:
Benjamin Miller is the CEO and co-founder of Fundrise, an investment platform on a mission to build a better financial system by empowering the individual.
Right now, that means making real estate investing simpler, smarter and more effective for investors of all sizes. Fundrise is the first investment platform to create a simple, low-cost way for anyone to unlock real estate’s historically consistent, exceptional returns.
By combining innovative technology with world-class active, opportunistic real estate private equity management, Fundrise delivers access to a level of investment performance that only the wealthiest investors have enjoyed — until now.
Founded in 2012, this DC-based startup has now transacted on nearly $5 billion of real estate and manages more than $1 billion in assets for its more than 130,000 investors.
Benjamin Miller has nearly 20 years of experience in real estate and finance, spending time as Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners and President of Western Development Corporation, prior to founding Fundrise.
Connect with Benjamin Miller:
* Crunchbase
* * *
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW:
Alejandro: Alrighty. Hello everyone,