About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Mike Simonsen from Altos Research

Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Mike Simonsen from Altos Research

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Mike Simonsen from Altos Research. He’s a longtime friend of mine from the RE.net / real estate blogosphere that I spent many a REBarCamp hanging out with. There’s few, if anyone, who knows more…

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Real Estate Tech // Geek Estate Meet-up May 9th in San Francisco

Real Estate Tech // Geek Estate Meet-up May 9th in San Francisco

We’re continuing to bring real estate tech innovators together in person with another San Francisco happy hour mixer (we did one in February)….two days from today. I know, I know…late notice. While a big part of the goal is bringing existing members of the Geek Estate…

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April Monthly Radar

April Monthly Radar

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Radar for Geek Estate Mastermind members with a range of curated links and analysis/commentary that comes out every Friday morning along with member news to peruse. This is a summary for the month of April.] Mastermind Summary April was full of…

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AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle

AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle

The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon is coming back to Seattle for another year. The event was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It is a community of innovators…

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Upcoming Private Geek Estate Mastermind Events in New York City

Upcoming Private Geek Estate Mastermind Events in New York City

The Geek Estate Mastermind is a private group of independent thinkers, free from sponsored messages and noise. A real estate tech-think tank, of sorts. There will be several invite-only events/meet-ups in New York City between April 8th and 19th. Interested in attending or know someone who would…

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Geek Estate Cocktails & Breakfast in Los Angeles

Geek Estate Cocktails & Breakfast in Los Angeles

We organized a meet-up in San Francisco last month and had executives from Side, Red Oak Realty, Upnest, zeehaus, VerbHouse, and DivvyHomes. Next week while I’m in Los Angeles at CREtech, I’m organizing another proptech cocktail hour. There’s no formal agenda, other than networking to meet & speak with…

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Geek Build II Participant: Sea-Town Real Estate

Geek Build II Participant: Sea-Town Real Estate

There is a new indy brokerage in Seattle joining Geek Build II (an agent/broker website and marketing hackathon): Sea-Town Real Estate. Their broker, Christian Harris, has been a longtime member of the Geek Estate Mastermind. We originally connected due to his brokerage’s focus on philanthropy and social…

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January Monthly Radar

January Monthly Radar

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Radar for Geek Estate Mastermind members with a range of curated links and analysis/commentary that comes out every Friday morning along with member news to peruse. This is a wrap-up for the month of January with a couple…

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Module = Home Construction in 2 Days

Module = Home Construction in 2 Days

Congrats to Module (a member of Geek Estate Mastermind)…they recently released a timelapse of their first house being built in 2 days. Super, super cool! This makes me even more bullish on the future potential for modular construction.

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Real Estate Tech // Geek Estate Meet-up February 11th in San Francisco

Real Estate Tech // Geek Estate Meet-up February 11th in San Francisco

We’re continuing to bring real estate tech innovators together in person with a February event. Last month’s location was Barcelona. This month’s meet-up is in San Francisco….a week from today. While a big part of the goal is bringing members of the Geek Estate Mastermind together…

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