🎧 EPISODE / 006
We speak with Michael Israel of DISRVPT Ventures, and former Director of Innovation at The X Company, about the future of brand in real estate, the structural gaps in resident experience, and how the right proptech can live up to its monumental hype.
Dear No Contest Listeners,
Here’s the truth: we’re at some big crossroads in real estate development.
Single-use assets are out of fashion. Developers across the country are turning apartments into hotels, hotels into offices, and offices into look-alike apartments.
Placemakers have finally figured out that brand is a secret weapon. And they’re hiring firms like No Walls Studio to make their communities stand out.
Real estate people are trying to build tech and tech people are getting involved in real estate. There’s a tidal wave of money being thrown at anything that combines Prop and Tech.
And the reality is, all three of these big movements are juuuussstttt getting started. The real winners won’t emerge for a few years.
In Episode 006 of No Contest, we speak with Michael Israel, a tech entrepreneur, real estate innovator, and brand aficionado. A guy who breaks things for fun, and thrives on the bleeding edge. Someone who’s tackled and is tackling everything above.
Oh, and we’re betting on Michael to be a winner.
He’s one of those unique thinkers who can cross categories without an awkward leap, gets the relationship between Prop Co. and Op. Co, and has a pulse on pop culture.
He’s cut his teeth in software and hardware development (to great commercial success), and built high-impact property technology at X Co.
He’s also building something new (shhhhh, it's on the DL).
And most of all, he’s got a clear and interesting point of view on space, technology and brand.
Enjoy.
✌️ NWS (@nowalls.studio)
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EP / 006 | Michael Israel, DISRVPT VENTURES: How innovation should work in placemaking