Edward Cohen
Host & Executive Producer at Tangent
Appears in 65 Episodes
Housing Crisis | It's Not a Mortgage, It's Not Renting, It's Acre, with Acre Homes CEO & Co-founder Mike Schneider
Mike Schneider is the CEO & Co-founder of Acre Homes. Acre combines the ease of renting with the financial upside of owning. Acre is available in Raleigh-Durham, and w...
Housing Crisis | Using Robots to Build Homes Faster & Cheaper, with BotBuilt CEO Brent Wadas
Brent Wadas is the CEO at BotBuilt, a Y-Combinator Construction technology company based in Durham, NC that is revolutionizing building homes with robots to address th...
Creating Pro-housing Ecosystems, with Ivory Innovations' Chief Innovation & Strategy Jenna Louie
Jenna Louie leads partnerships and strategic outreach at Ivory Innovations, and was previously an investor with the Urban Development Deal Team at Stanford. Ivory Inno...
The Real Deal's Amir Korangy on the Future of Real Estate Media, Building Hybrid Real Estate Communities & AI Opportunities & Threats
Amir R. Korangy is an Iranian-American publisher and film producer, who founded the business magazine, The Real Deal, about real estate and finance news. He also produ...
Housing Crisis | Transforming Housing Development with Workforce Creation & Political Innovation, with Inherent L3C CEO Tim Swanson
Timothy Swanson is the President & CEO of Inherent L3C, a Chicago-based low profit LLC focused on enabling and empowering long term affordable homeownership and genera...
How to Increase Workplace Efficiency, Improve Tenant Well-being & Reach Sustainability Goals, with Enlighted CEO Stefan Schwab
Stefan Schwab is the CEO of Enlighted (acquired by Siemens), a Proptech provider of IoT solutions at the intersection of people, space, and work. Enlighted combines co...
Bonus | Discomfort Zone: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Ft. Steve Eisman, Zach Aarons, Nick Romito, Kevin Ortner, Imran Noorani & Noah Isaacs
This is a Tangent Special episode. Discomfort Zone: the art of stepping out of your comfort zone to pivot in business and in life, and the science of changing your min...
Housing Crisis | Rent-to-Invest & Build Residential Real Estate Wealth, with Roots Co-founder Daniel Dorfman
Daniel Dorfman is the Co-founder at Roots, an Atlanta-based company aiming to help 1 million people create wealth through residential real estate investing and their i...
AI Opportunities for Real Estate, Regional Banks' Impact on CRE & Creating Value with Software, with Dealpath CEO Mike Sroka
Mike Sroka, CEO and Co-founder of Dealpath, a leading cloud-based software platform for commercial real estate investment and development teams, including Blackstone, ...
Housing Crisis | Fixing the Broken Mortgage System, with Altgage CEO Sukesh Shekar
Sukesh Shekar is the CEO & Founder at Altgage, the Google search of mortgages, bringing simply affordable mortgages to home buyers. . Sukesh believes in the American d...
SVB's & Signature Bank's Impact on Proptech, Real Estate & VC, with Common Founder Brad Hargreaves & MetaProp Co-founder Zach Aarons
Hosts Edward and Jeffrey are joined by MetaProp Co-founder & GP Zach Aarons, and special guest Brad Hargreaves, Founder and Chairman at Common and contributor to Thesi...
State of the Office Market and Remote Work's Impact on Commercial Real Estate and Cities, with VTS CEO & Founder Nick Romito
Nick Romito is the CEO and Founder of VTS, Commercial Real Estate's leading leasing and asset management platform. Under his leadership, VTS has grown to more than 60%...
State of the Residential Market and How to Build a Public Single-Family Rental Company, with Appreciate President & Renters Warehouse CEO Kevin Ortner
Kevin Ortner is the President of Appreciate Holdings and CEO of its operating arm Renters Warehouse. Appreciate is the second largest residential marketplace for inves...
Reinventing Housing & Hotels in the Remote Work Era, with Placemakr CEO and Co-founder Jason Fudin
Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Placemakr. Placemakr is a tech-enabled real estate and finance optimization platform that partners with developers, property o...
What's Wrong with Commercial Real Estate Appraisals, with Bowery Valuation Co-CEO Noah Isaacs
Noah Isaacs is Co-founder and Co-CEO at Bowery Valuation, a commercial real estate appraisal firm that is powering the best-in-class appraisers to help them appraise s...
How Commercial Real Estate Can Unlock the Clean Energy Revolution, with Peak Power CSO Imran Noorani
Imran Noorani is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Peak Power, a Canadian company that is putting commercial and industrial buildings at the center of the c...
MetaProp's Co-Founder Zach Aarons on How to Raise VC in a Recession, Public & Private Proptech Valuations, Adam Neumann + a16z new Flow & Most Proptech Friendly Cities
Zach Aarons has been working at the intersection of real estate and venture capital for the past decade. Zach is the most active early-stage PropTech investor in the U...
How Proptech Improves Cities & Quality of Life, the Great Tech Correction, Housing Crisis & Remote Work Impact on Real Estate
Tangent is back with a third limited series hosted by Edward Cohen & Jeffrey Berman (Partner at Camber Creek). In this episode, we introduce this series' main themes, ...
How Proptech Venture Capital Helps Commercial Real Estate and Startups Prioritize, Pilot & Deploy Tech, with MetaProp Partner Maureen Waters
Maureen Waters, Partner at MetaProp, the largest Proptech Venture Capital firm focused on early-stage Proptech companies, with over 150 investments in startups. Mauree...
How Construction Tech is Revolutionizing Commercial Real Estate Development, with Rabbet CEO Will Mitchell
Will Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Rabbet, joins us in this Tangent episode to discuss the impact of slow payments in the development cycle, and how Contech can help st...
Digital Real Estate in the Metaverse, Proptech VC Strategy, and Solving the Housing Crisis, with Tech Entrepreneur Zain Jaffer
Zain Jaffer, Partner at Bluefield Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm investing in Commercial Real Estate & Proptech companies like Boxabl, Bowery Valua...
How a 100-year-old Real Estate Family Business Stays at the Forefront of Proptech Innovation, with Rudin Management EVP Michael Rudin
Michael Rudin, SVP of Rudin Management and a key member of his family's proptech investing business Rudin Ventures, shares on Tangent what it takes to stay relevant in...
How Can Modular Buildings Transform Housing, Construction and City Life, with FullStack Modular CEO & Real Estate Development Pioneer Roger Krulak
On this Tangent episode, we dissect the state of modular construction with FullStack Modular's CEO Roger Krulak, a pioneering development and construction executive wi...
Fastest Start Up to Be a Unicorn in History is a Proptech Company Revolutionizing 2nd Home Ownership, Zillow lessons, with Pacaso Co-founder Austin Allison
Austin Allison is the Co-founder and CEO of Pacaso, a service that creates a more accessible category of second-home ownership and that is currently valued at $1BN. As...
How CRE Investors & Urban Planners Use Data Analytics to Improve Our Buildings & Cities, with CBRE's Real Estate Data Expert Manu Pathak
On today's episode, we explore the intersection of data science and real estate with Manu Pathak, an urban planner and real estate data scientist working at CBRE's Bus...
The State of Proptech Investing and Adoption in Post-Covid Cities, with seasoned VC investor Jeffrey Berman from Camber Creek
Jeffrey Berman has been at the forefront of the Proptech movement since 2008, and as General Partner of Camber Creek (investor in Latch, VTS, and Compstak among others...
Digitizing Single-Family Home Investing with the Ultimate Real Estate Tech Stack, with Plotify CEO and ex Bloomberg Fintech Pioneer Anish Malhotra
Anish Malhotra has led cutting-edge innovation over 20 years across real estate, hospitality, technology and capital markets. Today, he is the CEO and Founder of Ploti...
How Can We Collect User Data Ethically, Homeowner & Consumer Data Analysis Modeling, with Knoq CEO Kendall Tucker
Kendall Tucker is the Founder & CEO of Knoq, a technology company that recruits, trains and guides neighborhood sales representatives at scale. Knoq creates stronger, ...
'The Big Short' Investor Steve Eisman on the Housing Market, Becoming a Zillow Bull and Big Short Predictions
'The Big Short' investor Steve Eisman famously predicted the US housing market crash during the Great Recession of 2008. Steve was featured in Michael Lewisβ book The ...
How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health & Happiness, with Award-Winning Science Journalist Emily Anthes
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, fo...