{"id":19571,"date":"2019-06-20T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:29:42","slug":"international-meet-the-31-year-old-african-american-ceo-aiming-to-revolutionize-real-estate-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/international-meet-the-31-year-old-african-american-ceo-aiming-to-revolutionize-real-estate-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL: Meet the 31-year-old African American CEO aiming to revolutionize real estate investing"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO:\u00a0Ryan Williams founded Cadre in 2014 with the goal of using technology to open up real estate investment opportunities to a wider array of investors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Ryan Williams is on a mission to revolutionize the stodgy real estate industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Williams, the 31-year-old CEO and co-founder of fintech startup\u00a0Cadre<\/a>, has won the backing of high-profile investors like Mark Cuban, George Soros, Peter Thiel and\u00a0Jared Kushner<\/a>. He’s been on the\u00a0cover of Forbes<\/a>\u00a0and built Cadre into a company worth nearly $1 billion.<\/div>\n
But as an African American executive trying to disrupt real estate, Williams has also faced his fair share of skepticism.<\/div>\n
“Real estate is a Jurassic industry. It’s antiquated,” Williams told CNN Business from the sidelines of the SALT Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month.<\/div>\n
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