This week, Cory Levy speaks to entrepreneur JD Ross, co-founder of OpenDoor, a company that makes it possible to sell a home in minutes. Opendoor has raised a total of $320 million in venture funding and has surpassed a multi-billion dollar annual revenue run rate. Before Opendoor, Jd started 2 successful businesses during college and went on to lead growth as the VP of Product at Addepar.
In this week’s episode, JD and Cory talk about JD’s college experience, avoiding bankruptcy, landing in Silicon Valley, and how to accelerate your personal growth curve.
“MY LIFE HACK IS JUST THE WILLINGNESS TO DO THE THINGS THAT ARE SIMPLE AND HARD; SLEEP EIGHT HOURS A DAY, EAT HEALTHILY, BE NICE TO MY GIRLFRIEND, SPEND TIME IN THE GYM.”Entrepreneur JD Ross uses his curiosity to his advantage. “My superpower is just an incredible level of curiosity. I just get obsessed with certain things and dive as deep as I possibly can,” says Jd. He has used this superpower to quickly understand extremely complicated industries and business models.
Four years ago, Jd Ross and three co-founders launched Opendoor, a company that gives homeowners the option to sell a home online in just minutes. The company has raised a total of $320 million in venture funding and has exceeded $1B in annual home purchase rate. Before starting Opendoor, Jd founded two startups while in school at Washington University and soon became employee number five at Addepar.
ANN MIURA-KO - VC at Floodgate (Lyft, Refinery29, and more)
35 - TILMAN FERTITTA - Owner of the Houston Rockets and CEO of Landry's
34 | MARC RANDOLPH - Co-Founder of Netflix
33 | ADAM GRANT (Wharton professor & New York Times bestselling author) - Science of becoming well-known, Challenging the status quo, & more.
32 | MARISSA MAYER: Internapalooza keynote (former CEO of Yahoo and #20 employee at Google)
31 | DANIEL GROSS: Investing in Coinbase, Cruise, & Github, Daniel's new project, and Y Combinator
30 | ELAD GIL - Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Pinterest, Square, and more.
29 | ALEX BANAYAN - Author of the #1 international bestseller THE THIRD DOOR
27 | SCOTT BELSKY - Founder of Behance and Chief Product Officer at Adobe
26 | DEAR OLD PEOPLE by Cory Levy (recorded in 2018)
25 | KATHRYN MINSHEW - CEO of The Muse
24 | 3 Teens on Mental Health
23 | ADAM BRAUN - COO of WeGrow by WeWork. 2X Founder (Pencils of Promise, MissionU)
22 | CATHERINE HOKE - Prison Entrepreneurship Program
21 | RYAN HOLIDAY - Best Selling Author and former Director of Marketing at American Apparel
20 | BILLY GALLAGHER - How To Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
19 | GARY VAYNERCHUK - CEO of VaynerMedia
18 | PHIL STUTZ - Hollywood Psychiatrist and Best Selling Author
17 | JAMES HONG - Founder of HotOrNot
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