Integrating your business with technologyĀ is key to avoiding disruption of its future. Todayās Landscape: The Risk of Disruption Unlike other industries turned upside down at the hand of technology, private lenders have yet to see a true disrupting force change their landscape. Disruption is not a matter of if but rather a question of [...]
Technology is disrupting the industryāand thereās no turning back. Worldwide, the real estate industry is valued at more than $210 trillion and more than $30 trillion in the U.S. when it comes to just housing. It is a massive industry but one that for decades has done little to evolve and adopt new technologies. While [...]
The start of a technological renaissance in buying and selling, investing and lending We can look back at the 2008 mortgage crisis and think of it as a wildfire. When flames rip through forests and vegetation, it leaves behind seemingly nothing but destruction. But, in Southern California, for example, fires can have a silver lining. [...]
Itās not just lenders and investors who benefit By Brew Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder, PeerStreet Historically, private lenders thrived by having strong relationships with local borrowers and the ability to fill a niche within the broader lending market. By choosing to operate in a space where traditional lenders couldnāt or wouldnāt compete, these private lenders [...]
Elon Musk, founder and CEO at Tesla, just announced his company will add an electric semi-truck to their fleet of products. The immediate public assumption was that this innovation will do more than just improve the environmentāit may follow Teslaās consumer approach to make all driverless vehicles. If semi-trucks can eventually deliver goods without a [...]
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