In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Jerry Chu from Lofty AI.
Who are you, and what do you do?
Jerry Chu, I’m the CEO & Co-Founder at Lofty AI, a Y Combinator-backed real estate tech startup in Silicon Valley.
What problem does your product/service solve?
Real estate investors buy investment properties based on gut feeling, local knowledge & lagging data. We use A.I. & real-time data to identify undervalued properties primed for rapid appreciation allowing real estate investors to take a much more data-driven approach to investing.
What are you most excited about right now?
The adoption of artificial intelligence in the real estate industry. It’s the last trillion-dollar industry that’s not very data-driven at all, and I’m very excited to be at the forefront of this disruption. I’m also excited about our last walk-forward test results — in January 2019 our A.I. chose over a thousand properties that it deemed primed for rapid appreciation. Fast-forward to today, the average appreciation of our properties was a weighted average of 33%.
What’s next for you?
We just released our product for retail real estate investors. It shows them undervalued properties primed for rapid appreciation in a very easy-to-use web application. We’d been selling our data mostly to large real estate investment firms up until this point, so we’re excited to be releasing a product that every-day investors can use at a reasonable price.
What’s a cause you’re passionate about and why?
I’m very passionate about animal rights. I was a dog walker at the Westside German Shepherd Shelter & a feline caretaker at SPCA International.
Thanks to Jerry for sharing his story. If you’d like to connect, find him on LinkedIn here.
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Source: geekestateblog.com