Calvin Cooper - Social Equity for Renters

Future of Living

Calvin Cooper is the co-founder and CEO of Rhove, a fintech company founded to turn every renter into an owner. Prior to founding Rhove, Calvin was a Director and Venture Partner at an early stage venture capital firm located in the Midwest. Calvin is active in community and entrepreneur support organizations. He serves on the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center YEx Advisory Board. In 2017, the Columbus City Council and the Create Columbus Commission recognized Calvin with the Visionary Award, and he was also listed in the 40 Under 40 Class of 2017 by Columbus Business First. Calvin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Capital University in Financial Economics. Discussion

1. Why it is important for every member in a democracy to have an economic stake in their community?
2. How the pandemic affected our decision to make our long term plan of launching Renterhsip our short term plan to launch it in 3 months?
3. As an ex-VC, how are you viewing the explosion of Proptech and starting a company.
4. For multifamily investors, what is the best thing they can do to help future-proof their properties?
5. For RE developers considering co-living developments, what one thing should they be thinking about that isn’t obvious?
6. What we learned from launching an MVP savings product before launching Rentership.
7. Lightning round.

Links https://rhove.com/ https://twitter.com/Rhove_rent https://www.instagram.com/rhove.rent/

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