Brand Affinity in Investments

On today’s show we are talking about the power of a platform. Amazon is one of the most widely used sites on the internet. In fact, they also have 1.5M employees. We will come back to that later. 

Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff recently entered the real estate game in a big way. 

Marc Benioff is well known for being a founder at salesforce.com and he has a personal net worth of about 10.5B. Together, Bezos and Benioff seeded Arrived Investments with funding. 

Arrived invests in single family homes and in short term vacation rentals. 

The company has avoided some of the hottest primary markets like Atlanta, Nashville, Austin. Instead they have focused on up and coming markets like Augusta Georgia, Savannah Georgia and Knoxville Tennessee. 

To date, they count over 551,000 registered investors totalling $128M in real estate and so far have paid out $4.5M in dividends to investors. They have raised $135M and have purchased 368 properties and counting. Clearly they’ve designed an organization with the intention of scaling much larger. Their website shows a pretty complete team with about 20 people and the role descriptions I would expect for a company of this type. 

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Host: Victor Menasce

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