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.
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15 | JUSTIN KAN - Co-Founder of Twitch
14 | JOSH ELMAN - VP of Product at Robinhood and Investor
13 | ALBERT WENGER - VC at Union Square Ventures, Investor in Twitter, Tumblr, & Etsy
12 | ALOE BLACC - Grammy-Nominated Musician
11 | JORDAN FELDSTEIN - Maroon 5 Manager
10 | NAVAL RAVIKANT - Founder of AngelList and Angel Investor in Uber & Twitter
9 | MIKE POSNER - Grammy-Nominated singer & songwriter
8 | MATT MULLENWEG - Founder of Wordpress.com
7 | PAUL ROSENBERG - CEO of Def Jam, Co-Founder of Shady Records, and Eminem's manager
6 | SEAN RAD - Co-Founder of Tinder
5 | ARIA FINGER - CEO of DoSomething.org (5 million+ members)
4 | Jake Paul - Social Media Superstar
3 | KEVIN HARTZ - Co-Founder of TWO $1B+ startups - Eventbrite and Xoom
2 | KEITH RABOIS - Former Square COO, Co-Founder of $1B+ startup OpenDoor, and VC at Founders Fund
1 | ASHTON KUTCHER - Teenage Years, Future of Jobs, and Silicon Valley
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