Atticus LeBlanc

Atticus has been an entrepreneur since 2005 and founded PadSplit, the country’s largest co-living marketplace, in 2017.

He structured PadSplit as a public benefit corporation with a social impact mission to help solve the affordable housing crisis, one room at a time. Through its shared housing model, PadSplit aligns incentives between property owners, cities, and those who seek affordable housing, which allows residents to save more money and dramatically improve their lives. PadSplit currently offers more than 10,000 shared housing units and has housed more than 24,000 people across multiple markets in the U.S. The median income for PadSplit residents is $30,000 annually.

Before founding PadSplit, Atticus served as an affordable housing developer and contractor for more than a decade. He still serves as co-founder and co-managing partner of Stryant Investments and Stryant Construction, which specializes in the adaptive reuse of existing buildings.

A recognized thought leader on housing solutions, he has presented at MIT, UC Berkeley, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and TechCrunch. He has served as the chair of ULI’s UrbanPlan Education Initiative, co-chaired ULI’s Design For Affordability Task Force in 2018, and serves in multiple civic and volunteer capacities. He was named a Corporate Citizen of the Year in 2021 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Atticus graduated from Yale University with a BA in Architecture and lives in Decatur, GA, with his wife, their four boys, two dogs, and lots of chickens.