Real Estate’s Transition to Blockchain | Geoff Thompson | Sanjay Raghavan | Roofstock

In this episode, the yWhales team speaks with Geoff Thompson, Chief Blockchain Officer, and Sanjay Raghavan, Head of Web3 Initiatives at Roofstock, a platform that allows everyone from first-time investors to global asset managers to evaluate, purchase and own residential investment properties around the world. Geoff and Sanjay share how Roofstock is breaking down many of the traditional barriers to real estate investing today, why educating realtors is the best way to drive mainstream adoption, and what success Roofstock has found in the marketplace.   

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Roofstock’s Social Links:

Roofstock’s Discord: https://discord.gg/RoofstockOnChain

Roofstock’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rsonchain

Roofstock’s GitHub: https://github.com/RoofstockOnChain

 

Guest Social Links:

Geoff’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreythompson/

Geoff’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/_gthomps

Sanjay’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjayraghavan/

Sanjay’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/eth_sanjay

About Guests

 

Geoff co-leads Roofstock onChain, the web3 business unit at Roofstock, which is using blockchain to make ownership of single family rental homes radically simple. Before his current role, Geoff practiced law for 15 years in law firms and several general counsel roles at VC-backed companies, including Roofstock.  

Sanjay is a finance, product and operations leader. Before co-leading the web3 initiative, he served as GM of Roofstock One and also led Strategic Finance at Roofstock. Sanjay was previously an investment banker involved in structuring private capital markets transactions and co-founder of a fintech start up focused on analysis and risk assessment of loan portfolios.

 

 

You’ll learn about:

• Roofstock’s process and how tokenizing can activate the smart contract
• Why legal compliance is important in web3
• The need to overcome and accept the transition to blockchain 
• How to drive further adoption and educate realtors

Timestamps

 

0:00 Jay’s Intro

2:09 Sanjay’s background

7:51 Geoff’s background

13:45 On competition

16:37 Mike’s real use case

21:07 Roofstock’s process

33:29 Why use Roofstock

37:16 Roofstock’s marketplace

41:23 How do we educate realtors? 

48:57 What will drive further adoption? 

51:09 How to contact Roofstock

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