167: Data-Driven Investing and Company Building with Ben Miller of Fundrise

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Ben’s background in real estate (3:27)
• Why Fundrise was Started (4:37)
• Democratizing Investment Opportunities (6:35)
• Investment Thesis for Venture (11:55)
• Challenges with Data and Technology (12:34)
• Importance of Data Model Abstraction (20:03)
• Data Infrastructure and Investments (23:22)
• Evolution of Data Engineering (25:12)
• Closing the Tooling Gap (34:23)
• The user base segmentation (36:28)
• The emotional reality of investment decisions (40:50)
• Data inputs for real estate investment (47:07)
• The work of data infrastructure (48:28)
• The limitations of underwriting analysis (49:36)
• Improving accuracy with data infrastructure (52:43)

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