Techies, let's connect!

[Tzook Bar Noy]

I'm sure there are many other techies like me here in BP

would be happy to connect and learn more about you:

- what do you do in tech

- how do mix tech and REI

- which part is the side hustle Tech or REI ?

About myself:

- I'm a software engineer, I create products, apps services and more :)

- I started with SF, but I want to move to MF potentially with partners

- currently REI is my side hustle (for now :) )

[John Corey]

Old school tech guy who started with RE investing over 35 years ago.

- what do you do in tech

What I did in tech is a better question for me.

1. Degree in computer science - 1982. 

2. Moved from MA to Silicon Valley to work for HP. Co-authored the HP-UX standard (their unix operating system). As part of my day job, I was paid to be online long, long before anyone coined the term social media. Studied AI at Stanford part time. 

3. I switched to NeXT after 8 years at HP. I ran the IBM NeXT project for the NeXT side of the JV. I met a guy there named Eric Ly. More on him later. While at NeXT, I became friends with Bill Parkhurst. He invented the development environment, NextStep. Later, a guy name Tim wanted to use Bill's software. To obtain sign-off to purchase a NeXT Machine (the Cube), Tim needed to come up with a project. Tim Berners-Lee is his full name. The project was the invention of the Web. The first Web service was a NeXT Cube.

4. After NeXT and some further consulting at HP, I moved onto Swiss Bank Corp (SBC), London and worked on the client side of technology. Global projects, large budgets, interesting travel were common. I brought Eric in to Switzerland for a mini-project. Around the time SBC purchased Union Bank of Switzerland (today's UBS), I created a consulting firm. We worked for other banks. Sometime after that, as a favor to Eric, I was a beta user for his latest company. Eric has co-founded LinkedIn by this time so I was an early user.

- how do mix tech and REI

Nothing direct these days. I use or apply tech in innovative ways. FinTech or PropTech advisor. Structure, market, finance rather than the coding.

Over the years I have been online a lot with various RE platforms. This was before there was any BP. And then during the early days of BP. Low tech platforms back then compared to what people use today.

- which part is the side hustle Tech or REI ?

I am full time in real estate. SFR landlord mostly. The last 2 years or so, I have focused on crowdfunding, UK style. Think single-issue IPOs for someone's real estate deal. Way cheaper than what it costs to register with the SEC.

Looking to kick off a side venture (tech side hustle) in the trust space for real estate investors. Eric and I have been discussing what would be needed. Blockchain might be part of the mix.

Maybe going into the syndication world in the USA as I spend more time back in the USA. The main home for a while has been London. 

Portfolio is Hawaii to London with a lot of gaps. Very much a buy and hold sort of guy.