Listen "167: Data-Driven Investing and Company Building with Ben Miller of Fundrise"
Episode Synopsis
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ben’s background in real estate (3:27)Why Fundrise was Started (4:37)Democratizing Investment Opportunities (6:35)Investment Thesis for Venture (11:55)Challenges with Data and Technology (12:34)Importance of Data Model Abstraction (20:03)Data Infrastructure and Investments (23:22)Evolution of Data Engineering (25:12)Closing the Tooling Gap (34:23)The user base segmentation (36:28)The emotional reality of investment decisions (40:50)Data inputs for real estate investment (47:07)The work of data infrastructure (48:28)The limitations of underwriting analysis (49:36)Improving accuracy with data infrastructure (52:43)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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