Tyler Smith: Words of Wisdom with SkySlope & MyOutDesk
Guests: Tyler Smith, Daniel Ramsey
Recorded: November 23, 2021
Excerpt
Our CEO Daniel Ramsey recently hopped on a Zoom call with the infamous Tyler Smith. If you’re in the real estate business at all then you are likely familiar with at least his company; SkySlope. Tyler founded SkySlope in 2011 and since then they’ve grown to become the industry leader in digital transaction management software. Once upon a time, Tyler earned a spot on Realtor Magazine’s coveted “Top 30 Under 30” list, when he was a hotshot realtor himself. His experience in the real estate game lead him to want a better way to do business, hence his creation of SkySlope. It started off as merely a platform for taking brokerages paperless and has evolved over the past 10 years into much more.
Daniel and Tyler have known each other for years, which should come as no surprise being that they’re both successful entrepreneurs in Sacramento, California. This “Zoom hangout” ended up being a value-packed conversation that covered numerous topics. From the current state of our economy to the future of real estate business and technology, it’s hard to pick just one discussion topic from the whole session. So that’s why I didn’t! Instead, I’ll highlight a few of the more interesting matters they discussed. For the full experience, I highly recommend watching the video above or reading the transcript at the bottom of this page. This is value-packed.
Transcript
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Daniel Ramsey: I was up.
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TS: Oh, my gosh I don’t recognize you you love your two and shake your two and Shay.
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Daniel Ramsey: dude you want you want to see a six pack you.
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Daniel Ramsey: know no I was just fucking with you.
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Daniel Ramsey: know you know what you’ll laugh at this, but I just stopped drinking for like a year.
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TS: that’s it.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s literally it and, like my whole life i’m like I can’t you know exercise do this do that and I couldn’t give up the drink and then this year I just gave up the drink.
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Daniel Ramsey: Which is wild.
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TS: looking good Dan always great to see you buddy G look at your setup there that’s legit.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: And, but the Home Office.
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TS: You got better you got a better setup and we do I love it.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: and make it look cool you know.
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TS: I got take a screenshot of this this just looks too good and not have it, you know they need this is.
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Daniel Ramsey: His Home Office is like legit I don’t even know what’s back there but it deadpool Mike in the background.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: nerdy shit man nourishing shit.
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Daniel Ramsey: Like nerdy shit i’m doing Tyler it’s been a long time what’s going on.
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TS: Man, you know what do they say everyone always This is like the new things like snapping checks and snapping next and cashing checks, they say I don’t know.
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Daniel Ramsey: i’ve never said that shit.
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Daniel Ramsey: I know what you’re talking about and i’m not even sure.
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TS: Either good life’s good.
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TS: grind and grind I love it.
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Daniel Ramsey: Good good so we’re supposed to chat.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah I don’t know what about so we got all kinds of options, I do want to hear your updates, but I also want to make sure we make something that’s fucking cool that somebody would actually listen to and be.
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Daniel Ramsey: So yeah, what do you got.
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TS: who’s your audience.
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Daniel Ramsey: Just entrepreneurs, mostly.
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TS: Not real estate related specifically on general general ISM.
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Daniel Ramsey: yep yeah.
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Daniel Ramsey: Anybody who’s building shit like.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah we.
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Daniel Ramsey: Mid most most mid like.
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Daniel Ramsey: The half a million to like 10 million is kind of our sweet.
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Daniel Ramsey: Spot we have very few.
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Daniel Ramsey: Like over 50 million, but a couple.
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Daniel Ramsey: What about you and we’re we’re recording but none of that you know we’re just.
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TS: about that, I mean, I think I read about anything I can go any route you want.
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TS: yeah it’s easy for me interview styles.
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TS: super easy discussion style super easy so.
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TS: Anything that you want.
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Daniel Ramsey: Great what’s what’s going on with the acquisition.
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Daniel Ramsey: And i’m like you’re you’re three years in right.
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TS: we’re doing great we’re about to make some some acquisitions I can’t talk about the acquisitions, but we are, we are acquiring.
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TS: and growing we have great growth this year we’ve opened up our platform for the business and we open it up now, we sell form, so if you think about real estate cycle we’ve always been a post execution platform.
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TS: Right now we are pre execution mean forms a digital signature opposed to just i’ve got my documents and it’s a real deal put them in we’re almost like a file cabinet now we’re a an open file cabinet call it.
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TS: So we’re doing that and it’s been huge like we’re landing and molasses and associations to direct to agents, so we don’t sell the brokers only anymore, we will now go to association so like oranges sign up 17,000 agents.
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Daniel Ramsey: Sorry, you guys you guys are going after when forms basically.
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TS: yeah zip forms that’s the one you probably know, dot loop.
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TS: there and then us there’s no one else really doing the form stuff and it’s hot it’s really expensive we spend a lot of money more than we probably should the licenses like these forms that that we give it back to the Members who already paid for the forum so.
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TS: that’s really cool so that’s that’s a big focus of ours, I mean you go into get 70,000 agents opposed to what brokerage or you know Silva has 70,000 agents it’s it’s a lot different cell for sure.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s interesting and and it’s still in your wheelhouse, which is that big enterprise sales kind of style on a handful of folks.
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TS: Dan guess what like 14 of your 30 agents are using the forms product, you should just get the platform that all ties together and so now it’s almost like a sales channel.
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TS: Which is great, and they have everything in one so now they don’t have you know all these different types of technologies that they’re using which ages love that brokers love it so it’s a it’s new to us we’ve been about for a year and it’s like it’s just the right thing right now.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah how sky TC last time I talked That was a big.
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TS: Bird were there’s pros and cons it’s a very difficult business it’s a service based business, you know more about that than anybody.
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TS: So that’s.
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Daniel Ramsey: percent 15% baby.
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TS: yeah so that’s one number two we have 30 transaction coordinators ish maybe 33 maybe 29 somewhere around there.
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TS: And they do I believe they are better than the standard transaction coordinator, they handle more files which is good for business side of things.
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TS: What we’re doing now is now that we hire and have people remote now let’s open up the floor, we have a new person, I have a new CEO who’s running all of that i’m not doing it, but he’s overseeing it I should connect you guys we we’ve never done well with outsourcing for it.
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TS: But I know, an appetite because it’s a very difficult business meaning margin business hitting numbers predictability, because things closing don’t close the last day of the month, you might have more closings that he did the first five days of the month, so it’s just a very difficult.
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Daniel Ramsey: You were the remote i’m putting in the chat you were the guy that was against remote man.
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TS: I mean forever well first off I think there’s pros and cons and we can get into that I think there’s fundamental good things and fundamental bad things.
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TS: One, we are on a we do have a Fridays, right now, so our whole company happy Fridays, so we do that, we also are fully remote, although we have about 20 ish the 50 people in in any given time with 20 people in a day.
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TS: But we’re fully remote night there’s pros and cons I have found that there’s a lot more meetings going on, because we’re remote, which I don’t like because of meetings only slow down productivity unless it’s like we should have meetings to decide not to meet.
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TS: I think there is benefits to collaborating on a whiteboard when you’re innovating and I have found that it’s tough for some folks to innovate.
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TS: Yet different the energy changes, so we are pulling some people in for those types of meetings primarily on the product side I think that’s the biggest opponent that I have found.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah, why are you shaking.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah no no stop shaking.
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Daniel Ramsey: Your laptop yet.
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Daniel Ramsey: d you’ve got add, like me, I probably yeah.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah are you guys still at K street.
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Daniel Ramsey: The that’s the you know it’s funny as we bought a building in 19.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah and then the tenant moved out February 28.
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Daniel Ramsey: endemic hit 6700 square feet nobody’s here I mean i’m here the bookkeepers.
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Daniel Ramsey: No, I don’t want that I don’t want.
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Daniel Ramsey: You know, like that’s that’s crazy town um What about the Ai stuff you guys were working on how’s that going.
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TS: So we have a team right now fully dedicated to machine learning i’m building now where we can extract document text out of these.
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TS: Documents identify the documents and then use that data to do things on behalf of our users, so you can imagine, when you create a transaction in sky slope, you are.
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TS: typing in a lot of different data points so we’re making our mls data and we’re going to be taking the data inside the document to then complete the transaction for the user.
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TS: We believe our thesis is at some point we’ll be able to read the contracts understand them and audit them better than an admin or an auditor.
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TS: continue to use our services, because we can help them focus on matters most.
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TS: Less screen time or facetime you know whether that’s an admin happy more face time with their their agents or recruiting or whether that’s a page that has more face time, whether it be the face time with the camera or the belly to belly face time.
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TS: they’re with their clients and, at the end of the day, agents care about two things serving their clients.
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TS: Which equals into more money in revenue right, and so we can help them do that more, why should they be doing this transaction management platform stuff like it should just work automatically almost like a self driving transaction so.
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Daniel Ramsey: So i’m wonder.
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Daniel Ramsey: it’s interesting the Ai is interesting, are you guys playing with data, like in the title world yet like are you integrating title into your platform and are you looking for blockchain to eventually for you guys to be the blockchain piece.
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TS: we’re not we’re not that far yet we have discussions about it, or we have some some models we’re working on, however, right now we are integrating title, so if you think about it.
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TS: we’ve integrated that all in our platform, so the one click button one click button one click open escrow and you can do that, all in one place, and so we believe that the more than of those services that you have to go outside of somewhere to do like let’s bring them into our ecosystem.
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TS: And or transaction to do it we’re doing it for ourselves, because if it makes sense for our PCs, which is a service based business where it speeds them up, we think it’ll speed agents up.
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TS: Think about like the referral agreement it’s the craziest process.
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TS: They have to go into a zip forms they have to create a new account new file add the form send it to their broker assign send it to the New York agent broker to sign.
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TS: then get it back, and then they got to do something with it and wait for that realtor to like update them, which, as you know.
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TS: So just those types of things like, how do we take all these complex things don’t bring them in to our application so.
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Daniel Ramsey: What about the after clothes stuff have you guys started selling warranties furniture Amazon I like partner.
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TS: yeah So if you think about yes and no we have run a couple different tasks So the first thing is a pretty obvious one.
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TS: Yes, so we are doing those things as we move on.
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TS: How do we do additional links we have tested out so we took that back and we tested on insurance insurance went through bonkers because prior to close of escrow everyone’s trying to insurance, you know how it is you’re trying to get at last minute.
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TS: They go out to like 40 different vendors and come back to the top three based on price and coverage like within 30 seconds, so you can see, even click you can buy I mean it’s done that fast.
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TS: and consumers are loving that just because it’s it’s it’s working because they’re using it, but it’s just quick and easy service um.
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TS: there’s so much more to add on I mean it’s really difficult because, as you know, realtors have a very strong opinion of what service providers and vendors that they want and.
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TS: But it’s a fun problem to solve, I mean our teams working really hard on it, we do have a really good start to what we call the consumer portal where it has one of many different.
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TS: Try to be a big partnership, like you, Paul company, but it’s very difficult because realtors they want to know how this is so good that they should then endorse it to their client because we’re just we’re the middle person we can’t just say hey Dave.
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TS: You use us and, by the way, we’re going to now talk to your client they don’t they don’t do that really well that’s that doesn’t fly so um but yeah it’s it’s really I think a great great offering for real pours.
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Daniel Ramsey: What are after four years of being owned by a larger parent company, I imagine there’s some like lessons learned.
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Daniel Ramsey: Like things that you’re like holy crap if I would have known this like i’m curious What are those what does that look like.
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TS: Because we went from cash based accrual based so that completely changed a lot of different things so that’s one I learned, like, I know that the finance side of it really well like hands on hold up asleep like I know that really well, I think the other thing that i’ve learned is.
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TS: You know when you’re a smaller company, and I consider still small but like when you’re a startup it’s like you’re all working close together in a huddle and you’re talking to and in.
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TS: You build this relationship, and as you get bigger, especially when low guess what people you don’t know as many people I used to walk around and managed by walking around and talking with people and seeing them as much different now.
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TS: thousands of employees, but also with a pandemic i’ve learned that it’s that’s not the key to success for leadership it’s more vision.
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TS: Where what’s our mission what’s our vision extremely important in my opinion, but also more is consistency.
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TS: The market is shifted there’s a shift in the real estate industry, if you think about it call it 25 years ago it was the consumer was this black book and the consumers like i’m moving to folsom what’s the schools what’s the area.
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Daniel Ramsey: i’m i’m listening to what you said and i’m thinking well yeah that’s that’s who’s disrupting that the world they’re going to start giving that data for free to every consumer.
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TS: And so to make their purchasing dollar power there’s no difference in this, and so you have we have to adjust mean real purse which i’m pro real to obviously i’m or work it’s going to be tough it definitely is there’s a huge massive shift in the market right now.
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Daniel Ramsey: what’s happening what’s happening in your world in terms of like planning for 22 and 23 tech data zillow becoming a brokerage.
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Daniel Ramsey: You know title moving to the blockchain that’s going to happen next three to five years that’s going to shift everything mortgage is becoming less about a lender and more commodities, meaning.
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Daniel Ramsey: So i’m curious where you see our industry rolling to other than the influencer piece like what do you think is going to happen to teams brokerages eight.
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TS: And that’s what i’m going to go next door, but at this point it’s tough because what’s the value prop so I definitely think the brokerages are going to go down.
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TS: A lot of new models will come, I think there’s a lot of testing and trying and is the industry ready for blockchain and and will that work and I definitely think there’s no doubt that blockchain Is this something that’s going to be here.
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Daniel Ramsey: But we’re what’s going to happen over the next year or two.
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TS: yeah so right now, so I never think inflation is, at this rate is great um because what happens then is the government gets in the way and wants to try to control things.
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TS: And right now we have so much inflation and so when you look at just what’s out there you have tech companies with very, very high valuations.
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TS: Very high give a lot of money, and when you look at venture you look at private equity.
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TS: This money that they have to spend it and they do it even says a lot of my my my buddies here in sacramento some raised some some really good values.
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TS: shopping the values and they’re like we have to hire 135 people the next 90 days like that’s hard to do when one, not a lot of people want to work with to.
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TS: Everything is remote in three it’s extremely competitive on hiring and technology, right now, so when you think about that everyone’s hurrying in it.
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TS: you’re competing, and so what you’re doing is you’re paying more so he’s like i’m paying way more than what’s average out there just because I have to hire these people to hit my goals.
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TS: And I have to burn through this cash to get my next round of financing and if I don’t burn through it, if I don’t throw everything to try to hit the numbers that I told him to hit i’m going to have a chip i’m assuming it’s hard for me to raise more money.
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TS: yeah so therefore we’re going to overpay for people, which only goes up so now, as we recruit we’re paying more for people and everyone’s paying more everyone’s making more now we have inflation, the debris comes and goes hey whoa whoa hold on.
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TS: And and you’ll see a lot of things change.
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TS: I don’t think we’re anywhere close to that I think we’ve got two years before we start seeing that happen honestly I think we’ll start we’ll see a great market for the next call it 14 to 24 months at least i’m.
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TS: A really have you seen slowdowns of 700 offers on a property to 100 so it’s still hot market and 700 and hundred is exaggeration, but it’s still really hot market out there.
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TS: And they’re still there still property values are still high, at an all time and I think we’re in a better place than we were previously because people are either making a praise them up they’re not making appraisal they’re paying out of pocket.
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TS: And when you go back to 2005 2006 hot hot hot market I they paid me to get a mortgage was 103% financing, so if I walk away, I have nothing to lose anything I only game.
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TS: And they’ve set up they’ve set us up the best I don’t be perfect, but they set us up the best to not have that again but will there be foreclosure dress will be short sells yes well the market shift, yes I think people stay in their houses longer i’m for sure.
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Daniel Ramsey: What it, what are you doing right now personally to protect against inflation and the rising price and the talent pools getting shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.
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Daniel Ramsey: I guess the question is what advice, do you have for other entrepreneurs who are also building companies, whether tech or real estate related what should they be doing right now.
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TS: yeah so obviously as a CEO you have a couple different roles and responsibilities, you know one is is you know cold traffic that’s that’s definitely one obviously vision, obviously, is one.
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TS: And then, making sure to me is you have you have really good leaders I think those are the three things I really try to focus on and there’s other things, obviously I do but.
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TS: that’s really what I try to make sure my calendar touches to, I think, right now, what I found in this world and we even see it here at sky slope is.
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TS: People want to work for a company that is changing the world, and you know, not every company does that, and so I think as a CEO or someone who’s starting a company.
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TS: How do you compete with a lot of other companies that have call it, they raise more money, though one overpay significantly is.
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TS: Staying true to that and staying true to how what your vision is and making it so folks feel inspired to work, whether that’s in their apartment on fifth avenue whether that’s in an office that’s a we work, which sounds for now, or whether it’s in the.
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TS: Current office where i’m at you know it’s, how do you really make sure that they feel inspired and that they are not only that there that they can relate to the vision, but what they’re working on points directly to it, and I have to say.
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TS: whoo whoo i’ve probably taken that not more for granted, but I could have probably five X down that more during the pandemic when the pandemic hit one we thought oh my gosh in the world is the real just can even show holds like.
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TS: This is gonna be tough, they can property, so how a broker is going to pay us, you know the company dollars already low now that’s the key though it doesn’t exist so.
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TS: What are we going to do, and so we went into this for room and there’s a lot of good things that came out of it obviously.
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TS: But win this war room and how to strategize on what are we going to do and what’s our strategy and the world is changing.
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TS: and, obviously, our sales, we found that brokers found more value in our software they needed this because agents were coming to the office and people were worker mo and.
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TS: Our sales went up with with really a half of the team that it had we have a 50% lower salesforce and we are selling twice as much.
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TS: yeah um, and so what the challenge was we focus so much on that, and if you think about it, like march of not even this year last year seems like 10 years ago it’s hard to even remember it seems like the president’s been a President for four years, and it literally feels that way.
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TS: Time sped up and so what’s bad about that as well as.
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TS: Whenever was the office we had our our normal all hands like you were in a flow and so right now we’re rethinking all of that, because we’re not i’m not in front of the company, as much as I think I probably should be.
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TS: We are, as a leadership team, not in front of our TEAM members as much, how do we do that, and what are the best practices and we looked at a lot of companies that will be rolling that out.
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TS: Starting November, December and then moving forward what we’re doing weekly all hands like literally weekly all hands, because.
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TS: People don’t feel the connection, you can have the best mission, the mess vision on the world how do you constantly.
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TS: show that to your team members your teams have this is what we’re doing this is why we do that, and this is the impact.
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TS: Whether that’s changing the world or not, the impact it is to the business and to our users and we don’t have that right, the second on a constant basis, and I feel like you have to do even more remotely.
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TS: And so that’s what I would encourage people to do, because the companies out, we are recruiting from.
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TS: we’re finding that something that they feel and even some of the team Members that we find her leaving where we do our post they’re like I want to feel more connected, for I want to feel more like wow.
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TS: We haven’t we’ve only gotten more but it just doesn’t seem like more because working remote as top it’s just it’s very different you know to me.
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TS: So i’m constantly studying what the best practices are what companies that are really doing well doing this because not every company is changing the world, you know to mean like.
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TS: I work for tesla and I want zero emission that you know, to get rid of all that’s not every company.
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TS: So what is, what are you changing, how does it affect the people that the lives of the people that it’s making change and how do your team Members feel that everything they do is directly.
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TS: directly connected to that and that’s that’s I think that would be what I would recommend for a lot of people.
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Daniel Ramsey: you’re moving into a new level of leadership, where you have leaders you’re delegating leadership to leaders, what have you learned in that process like what, what are the some of the keystone you know habits, I guess.
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TS: um yeah my roles change and then, as we grew up we’re still young still start up but I say as We grew up just being in, we have to have really good executives, in my opinion, especially during this time, when people are remote.
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TS: And you know me it’s like pb&j you know processes bureaucracies and jams that’s what I really.
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TS: You know I want to our strategy is offensive to our our our how we are strategize our business.
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TS: But you know, on the outside, but on the inside here it’s blocking and tackling it’s how do I block and tackle so my leaders can do what they do best and do really well.
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TS: They got a process in place that’s not working let’s run through that process, but the.
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TS: Bear craddick things that are running into your way if any let’s remove those what jams, what do you jammed up on, let me remove that for you, because.
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TS: I want to, I want to throw you the ball and I want you to run and score touchdown and I don’t want to block you so let me block that, let me get rid of those things if you can’t but that’s that’s the role I have.
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TS: Is is setting the company vision, making sure our our leadership is aligned and then really you know, removing the pb&j and I don’t mean the yummy yummy in my stomach you know I mean i’m talking about the ugly so.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah love it, what about.
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Daniel Ramsey: The question was what are you doing to protect yourself personally and the company from inflation and i’m i’m just kind of.
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TS: curious like outside of the company.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah sure I mean I what I what I I guess My thesis is the government continues to intervene in the market.
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Daniel Ramsey: And shift what the about the real value of money is right and over the last two years they’ve printed 25% of the entire money supply ever printed in two years, so.
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Daniel Ramsey: I find that to be a bigger threat to you and I entrepreneurs business owners, people who have built something i’m curious what you’ve done personally to protect against that.
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TS: i’m a couple different things one we we share a lot of different strategies, I won’t go too crazy detail that’s like a whole nother hour and and not a beer, but a coffee, since I know that you know you’re.
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Daniel Ramsey: off.
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TS: i’m off yeah.
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TS: yeah um, but in my wife every what we do media group we show a lot of different strategies on tax tax things on how to save taxes, obviously in California it’s a brutal brutal state.
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TS: And I actually don’t mind paying the tax if I knew the value of what I was paying it for like you know there’s just not enough value, specifically in California i’m, in my opinion.
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TS: But also, how do you protect yourself.
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TS: You know, making sure your your your portfolio is our diversified enough, and so I can go into a ton of those things I don’t know if that’s the right it’s the right forum for that, but um it’s definitely something that I work with with my team on for sure.
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Daniel Ramsey: What about the business.
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TS: I think the business it’s the best technology is going to win, I do believe that I think at the end of the day.
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TS: Can you go buy things at other places than Amazon, yes, but i’m gonna tell you i’m gonna buy names I.
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TS: My cousin said I don’t want to support him, and I want to support local companies and i’m all about that and I love that.
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TS: I said but I bet you told her a little bit you know down you can’t last 30 days and she could because it’s too convenient.
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TS: yeah and it’s it’s too easy and there’s value there because time is precious and anytime for us in our business, how do we protect herself, whether the markets up or down, I think, at the end of the day, real estate will still happen we’ve seen it.
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TS: yeah, how do you make sure you’re the best technology so let’s just hypothetically go into the mind of the markets shifted and it’s gone down.
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Daniel Ramsey: yep.
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TS: it’s a horrible state great what comes all people have are upside down in their houses let’s just hypothetically go through them and we go back to the days of where I I learned a real estate.
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TS: i’m a ninja in that space, so if that were to come, I think we only have more value because of what we can provide twice case of exists today.
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TS: So we’re looking at those things we look at the data and we build those tools you think right now it’s a hot market with offers on property.
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TS: Great so often management is a big thing that a lot of realtors find that there’s challenges with them, I got 32 offers, how do I even manage this stuff oh my gosh it’s crazy what how do I look professional to my consumer my seller, to tell them.
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TS: These are the top three that’s hours and hours of work well imagine you’re getting multiple offers on properties and it’s oreos or.
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TS: yep or big portfolios of these banks that want to offload these properties what’s the technology it’s going to exist which we have and we built.
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TS: And I think when that time comes, which it will be anywhere, where it was no doubt.
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TS: We will have those those technologies and software’s I believe that mentally that are even TC and the whole virtual professionals and assistance world will play a huge part of that as well, so.
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TS: um we position ourselves that way but it’s all about making it extremely extremely convenient and really great technology, I think, at the end of the day, that’s what’s going to win, regardless of the market it’s interesting.
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Daniel Ramsey: What um I like I always like to end these things with like what’s your one ninja skill for scaling a business what’s The one thing that has led to all of your success what’s the one reason you’re here doing this interview versus your competitor.
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TS: hmm Dan ran with the question what is my ninja.
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TS: ninja skill um.
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TS: Obviously, for me, it’s.
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TS: Either you have to be super.
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TS: I think i’m flexible on details.
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TS: And I think.
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TS: That that sounds interesting but it’s i’m flexible on details i’m very stubborn when it comes to our vision.
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TS: And I think you have to be, I think.
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TS: there’s a lot of people who within your company that want to say we should do this, we could do that and it’s like stubborn i’ll be flexible on those details, I would say flexibility i’m like gumby um I think that you have to be able to be flexible, I think another thing is.
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TS: I think really good leaders.
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TS: I think really good leaders listen a lot, but also, they have to change their mind a lot, you know, and I think when you think about things it’s some worse everyone solving really hard problems in the world.
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TS: And these are complicated and sometimes you get new information and you have the change of mind.
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TS: And sometimes you don’t get new information you read analyze what you had in front of you.
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TS: And you change your mind, then, politicians are screwed up here, they can do right they get in trouble, but I think you know.
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TS: really good people are open ended up very unnatural thing about letting information come in.
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TS: And let me go there profoundly helped convictions right that they people want to hold on to things and to me, as I think you have to be really open.
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TS: To challenging what you believe is true and then making the conclusion opposed to being very closed off of things coming in.
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TS: And so I think i’m really good at that I think it’s tough, because you want to be really consistent, but you don’t it’s okay to change your mind I think that’s what people have a really hard problems like well if.
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TS: You change your mind I did and here’s the data that proves of the information that I gathered why I chose it or I read looked at it for solving really hard problems and sometimes you’re not going to be right on everything, but i’d say i’m flexible and i’m open to change my mind.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s a different Tyler than I knew 10 years ago, because I think your response would have been because i’m just aggressive and I want to compete and like like so what what has shifted in your world.
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TS: yeah Some people will say i’m married now but.
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TS: I think I think.
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TS: I think what shift, it is i’m super competitive still I hate to lose.
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TS: yep and I love to win I love the dominate the victorious beating our drums I love victory um but I realized with victory, you have to be flexible and that.
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TS: I, I can only go so far, if if i’m growing and it’s just me and they’re like six people rolling next to me.
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TS: they’ve got great leadership and they’re going to beat me and I have to change my mindset of how do I have a really good leaders in place, how do I five X download them.
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TS: Like i’m really hard on my leaders in a good way like i’m not hard to work with, but i’m definitely a hard place to work on for like we work it’s a real work.
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TS: And so I think what’s changed is is just knowing that in order to compete at a higher level.
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TS: you’re going to have to do that, you know we’ve grown, the company so much since 2017 when we’re first you know merged with fidelity.
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TS: at our level, we have to compete at a higher level Tyler can go out and do the things that he thinks sound rate or he thinks this is the winner go there’s quantifiable data that proves that now there’s.
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TS: there’s a user feedback that proves that and we haven’t really good leaders, I can execute on it and we don’t have that at this level or any level my opinion.
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TS: guess what i’m gonna i’m going to lose that race because of call it my ego or my thoughts or my gut or I think this is the right way.
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TS: that’s that’s great, but we, I had to shift massively, as you can tell i’m in order to compete at a different level, otherwise we would have lost in my opinion i’ve had a mature as a CEO and i’m still maturing.
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TS: But I hadn’t been sure from a 2017 and beer bottling warehouse on on 1210 G street.
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TS: You know, being a with a jacuzzi.
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Daniel Ramsey: last question then we’ll wrap it up what has the growth been since 2017 you merge with fidelity grown the team guys have I know your headcount has been phenomenal well, what are you.
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TS: boys at the time we were doing you know call it.
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TS: $12 million in revenue will be well over 30 million this year I will set for, for we want to hit over 40 next, so I mean.
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TS: Things are going pretty well yeah.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s a great.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s a great place to end an interview.
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Daniel Ramsey: Dr Smith thanks for joining us today really appreciate you.
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TS: fund and Ram.
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Daniel Ramsey: Ram haha alright brother.
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Daniel Ramsey: Good to catch up.
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TS: We shouldn’t want to catch up more I don’t I didn’t ask you.
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TS: I didn’t get to talk to you about anything usually i’m the talker and I get to ask all these hacks and questions, but you were leading I didn’t want you know.
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Daniel Ramsey: I don’t know it’s good man well well.
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Daniel Ramsey: let’s text and we’ll hang out a snow snow is coming.
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Daniel Ramsey: it’s not out there.
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TS: I know dude i’m like i’m ready to get why.
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TS: While I want to do a heli trip.
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Daniel Ramsey: A best one is in Canada.
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TS: I can’t get in that country, right now, no one’s even letting people in or out I heard.
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Daniel Ramsey: dude it’s hard to do helicopter in the US there’s a place in Canada.
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Daniel Ramsey: I forget the name of it but i’ve gone through times it’s great.
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TS: yeah I wanna I want to do a hell of a ride my buddy wants me to do it in Jackson hole so so.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s not Canada.
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TS: You look good man just alcohol you’re not working you’re not walking you know.
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Daniel Ramsey: I.
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Daniel Ramsey: have always done, the workout thing you know, like.
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TS: Are you still not cool guys group.
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TS: Does all this badass shit still yeah yeah.
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Daniel Ramsey: Well i’m still in it, not that i’ve done any of the travel but we’re supposed to go to Australia, and you know that’s got that got killed, but i’m still in that still fun.
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Daniel Ramsey: rats on the wedding dude.
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TS: yeah I got married about a little over a year.
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Daniel Ramsey: it’s crazy that feeling.
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TS: Great that’s really great everyone says i’m more patient and pain, which might really like my wife must be softened me off.
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Daniel Ramsey: They tend to wait till you have kids.
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Daniel Ramsey: To do that.
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TS: yeah well yeah yeah we want kids yeah.
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TS: wow well.
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TS: we’ll try sometime this year, hopefully we’ll see.
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Daniel Ramsey: congrats.
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TS: I brother watches it.
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Daniel Ramsey: Later john.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: Good stuff.
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Daniel Ramsey: Was it.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: yeah I mean it was a lot of just chatting and stuff it’s gonna be kind of hard to pick and pull content, but I think we can still get some stuff from it.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: What do you think.
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Daniel Ramsey: I just went all over the place, really.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: There was all over the place.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: there’s a lot of like small but like good nuggets you know it wasn’t like a lot of stretched out content, it was like get some really good things to say about this, and then you completely shifted gears and yet good thing save us something else.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: So i’m not to rewatch it and just pick and pull see we can get from it.
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Daniel Ramsey: Do the transcript you don’t have to watch it, because in the transcript you can read this whole hour and.
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Five minutes.
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Daniel Ramsey: I need to record an intro real quick.
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Daniel Ramsey: Okay um, what do you want to Title this.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: i’ll have to look at the content, for we decided that is already know what we’re going to use, you know.
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Daniel Ramsey: No, we got to do that, we got to do the intro right now dude.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: Okay i’m.
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Daniel Ramsey: Because i’m not coming back.
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Daniel Ramsey: Not coming back well you know I could actually.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: hang on to that shirt.
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Daniel Ramsey: yeah exactly and.
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Daniel Ramsey: All right.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: Good you have something in mind.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: yeah anything.
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Daniel Ramsey: I don’t know we’ll see what happens go ahead and.
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Daniel Ramsey: hey everybody Daniel ramsey here with scale the podcasts now every once in a while I get to talk to a friend and this friend actually competes in the real estate tech space.
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Daniel Ramsey: He is the founder and CEO of sky slope, and if you followed my out desk over the years we’ve been we’ve been friends with Tyler and i’ve featured him he’s featured me on a couple of different shows what’s cool is.
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Daniel Ramsey: we’ve been following his company I don’t know, over the last 15 years and in the last four he was purchased but by fidelity.
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Daniel Ramsey: now has a large leadership team and has seen his company go from you know 10 million to.
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Daniel Ramsey: Next year he’s planning on a $40 million company and all in the tech real estate space so it’s interesting you know, for you as a consumer it’s interesting to you as a business person and.
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Daniel Ramsey: there’s a lot of good nuggets about leadership and where the country’s going and how to compete in business in general.
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Daniel Ramsey: And I just really liked tyler’s energy and i’ve always really admired the way he competes in business, I think you’re gonna like this one stay tuned for scale the podcast with Tyler Smith, the CEO and founder of sky slope.
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Daniel Ramsey: we’ll see.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: You later yeah no I thought that was fine that was good.
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Daniel Ramsey: That was fine.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: Well, when you had the energy like immediately like you pulled out of nowhere.
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Daniel Ramsey: that’s what I did all right brother talk soon.
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MOD Virtual Solutions: Thanks man.
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later.
