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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2018 Report: How Brokers Are Handcrafting the Future of Their Real Estate Technology

2018 Report: How Brokers Are Handcrafting the Future of Their Real Estate Technology

Are you a real estate broker/age? Are you interested in technology? Interesting in building a real estate brand? If so, Sequel released their “How Brokers are Handcrafting the Future of their Real Estate Technology” 2018 report. Download here if you’re interested in learning from a few brokers…

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Geek Estate Founding Member Spotlight: Ryan Coon from Rentalutions (Now Avail)

Geek Estate Founding Member Spotlight: Ryan Coon from Rentalutions (Now Avail)

We’ve now published three Geek Estate founding member interview; Jennifer Kjellgren, Sep Niakan, and Eileen Romito. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being a Geek Estate mastermind member. Our 4th interview is with Ryan…

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Thoughts on Zillow’s Latest Consumer Brand, Out East

Thoughts on Zillow’s Latest Consumer Brand, Out East

Zillow recently launched a new brand, Out East. It’s a portal for the Hamptons, joining Street Easy as a Zillow Group consumer brand on the East coast. It’s the result of their acquisition of Hamptons Real Estate Online (see here), which turned out to be…

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Geek Estate Newsletter #16 — Helping Renters/Buyers Understand their Financial Future

Geek Estate Newsletter #16 — Helping Renters/Buyers Understand their Financial Future

The purpose of Geek Estate’s private community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. Most of the longer strategy,…

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Dave Fulk from HelloAlex

Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Dave Fulk from HelloAlex

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with co-founder and COO of HelloAlex, Dave Fulk. Without further ado… What do you do? HelloAlex is an Artificial Intelligence software specifically designed for Real Estate agents to help them start conversations with their leads…

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Geek Estate Founding Member Spotlight: Eileen Romito from TruePad

Geek Estate Founding Member Spotlight: Eileen Romito from TruePad

We kicked off our Geek Estate founding member interviews with Jennifer Kjellgren a few weeks ago, and followed it up with Sep Niakan’s last week. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being…

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Darryl Glade from Stilio

Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Darryl Glade from Stilio

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with co-founder and CEO of Stilio, Darryl Glade. He’s another founder I met in New York a couple weeks ago. Without further ado… What do you do? I am part of the incredible Stilio team…

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Geek Estate Newsletter #15 — Affordable Housing

Geek Estate Newsletter #15 — Affordable Housing

The purpose of Geek Estate’s private community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. Most of the longer strategy,…

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immoviewer Creates Floor Plans From 360° Photos

immoviewer Creates Floor Plans From 360° Photos

There was some big news last week from one of Geek Estate‘s founding members — Jeff Turner, CEO of immoviewer US. No Measuring. We Do All The Work. We’ve been testing floor plan creation from the 360° images in your immoviewer 3D tours for several months now…

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The “Tech-Enabled Real Estate Brokerage” Pitch

The “Tech-Enabled Real Estate Brokerage” Pitch

It’s widely agreed upon that the rise of tech-enabled brokerages are one of the major major trends to watch in the real estate industry. Namely, Redfin, Compass, eXp Realty, and NextHome. From an agent perspective, I’m trying to better understand how these new models differentiate from each other….

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