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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Upcoming GEM Soirées — San Francisco and Chicago

Upcoming GEM Soirées — San Francisco and Chicago

The fifth and sixth event in the GEM Soirée series are coming up. One next week in San Francisco on Cinco de Mayo, followed by an event in Chicago on May 19th. Each an evening to mingle and celebrate the industry’s progress with real estate…

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The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole

The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 200th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to inbox of more than 500 GEM members on January 27th, 2022. Some links included below are to members-only articles.] For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d…

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Proptech networking roulette, Housing Affordability edition – March 2nd

Proptech networking roulette, Housing Affordability edition – March 2nd

Our “GEMbreaker” networking series continues…a round of (virtual) 1-on-1 conversations to meet a handful of amazing innovators. We’ve done more than 15 of these rapid-fire networking sessions previously, but this is the first time we’re focusing the marketing/audience/connections on one specific topic by making it an…

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GEM Soirée in Seattle

GEM Soirée in Seattle

The third Geek Estate Mastermind Soirée is taking place a week from today in Seattle. It’ll be an evening to mingle and celebrate the industry’s progress with real estate tech founders, execs, VCs, and practitioners. Inspectify will host the event on March 1st from 5:30-7:30…

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Rebuilding Main Street with Ownership

Rebuilding Main Street with Ownership

[Editor’s note: Originally published as a members-only article in the GEM.] Making commercial property ownership simple and affordable for small businesses, withco recently came out of stealth with its $32 million in funding ($4 million seed + $28 million Series A), reported TechCrunch. Lead investors are…

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20% off CREtech San Diego March 22nd-23rd

20% off CREtech San Diego March 22nd-23rd

[Editor’s Note: Geek Estate Offers are special offers members of the GEM] CREtech is THE place for news and events for the commercial real estate industry. In a few weeks (March 22nd-23rd), they are putting on the west coast version of their conference… in sunny…

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Affordability Innovations, a new Workgroup within the GEM

Affordability Innovations, a new Workgroup within the GEM

On the heels of the announcement of GEM’s Blockchain + Real Estate workgroup, we have another up our sleeves to start the new year. The Affordability Innovations workgroup–hosted and curated by Matt Hoffman, Abby Ivory, and Jenna Louie–is being created to find and elevate startups focused on housing affordability,…

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State of the GEM 2022

State of the GEM 2022

[Editor’s Note: Below, maintaining the tradition started a year ago, we report transparently on the makeup of the GEM and touch on what we’re focused on for 2022. Since it was originally published as an article for members, many links included are to prior members-only articles,…

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Blueprinting Proptech: PadSplit

Blueprinting Proptech: PadSplit

[Editor’s Note: The GEM is a real estate tech think-tank comprised of 500+ founders, executives, VCs, and practitioners. Our mission is to attract the 1,500 most forward-thinking, and diverse, innovators. Below is a sample of one of the in-depth startup briefings from our Blueprinting Proptech…

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Announcing Blueprinting Proptech, a structured methodology to analyze early-stage proptech companies

Announcing Blueprinting Proptech, a structured methodology to analyze early-stage proptech companies

The GEM exists to serve as an exclusive, objective lens into the trends, companies, people, and ideas shaping real estate technology. We do that through thought-provoking written analysis—like our first GEM series kicked off by Greg Fischer that dissected a range of players in the small landlord property management software…

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