On Wednesday, the day before I took off for Santiago for Start-up Chile, I had the chance to meet Blake Andrews (& Caroline and Tricia) from Give Back Homes in person in San Francisco. I’ve gotten to know him over the past several months via phone and text conversations (after being introduced by Audie), and he’d already won me over. After spending some time in person, I can tell for certain Blake is the real deal.

He was on the main stage of Inman Connect Thursday morning for New Kids on the Block. Here’s the video:

Onward to building homes for those in need…