Chad Link & Rob Brower - Making Real Estate More Equitable

In major real estate downturns, who has all the real estate business? What do real estate agents need to do differently in a real estate recession? What was the innovation that Trulia and Zillow brought to the home buying industry? Why has Zillow been detrimental to so many real estate agents? What middlemen artificially add costs to the home purchase transaction? How did Rob transition from being a vendor of Chad's to being an investor and co-founder in his technology solution? Why has professional honesty been an important cornerstone of Swyvvl's success? How was personal sacrifice necessary for Chad to be successful with its brokerage business? Why are consistent client leads so hard to come by for real estate agents? What has traditionally caused real estate agents to shy away from brokerage CRM solutions in the past? How has Swyvvl flipped the business model for real estate agents in order to create more economically beneficial outcomes? Chad Link and Rob Brower - co-founders of Swyvvl, join Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how an early development /design oversight demonstrated the personal integrity and commitment that laid the foundation for a future co-founder relationship.

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Chad Link & Rob Brower - Making Real Estate More Equitable is an episode from Proptech Espresso by Mark Hurst.

This episode is 57:36 long.

This episode was published on Aug 18, 2025.

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