How a Commercial Lead to a Successful Startup Portfolio in PropTech | Jacob Blackett & Zain Jaffer
Hello creative people, today we are back with a really inspiring and quite insightful story which is all a set of real-life events of our guest, Jacob Blackett, who is an entrepreneur, running 3 companies and also a real estate investor who took a loan from his grandmother and get him established in prop-tech.
Now, you might be thinking why is it relevant to you, well have you ever got attracted by those lucrative looking schemes to which you never had been paid attention to and then you do it but of course doesn’t get success, I bet we all fall at least once into the traps of commercial ads and that’s how a freshman in college, Jacob started with no knowledge more than a bunch of seminars, the kind we all have been attended once and how even after facing a loss in the very beginning, working like a machine for 12 hours, he managed to cover the loss with the profit.
We all hate being controlled by someone and even in those situations how he managed to pull that stunt out and how to take a risk in vulnerable situations. All this feels like I am talking about you right, well this kind of thing we all face but how to resist the situation without quitting and also how to make a fortune out of the misery, you will know everything and this will teach you to be smart and tough even if you stand on the edge of the cliff
So, let’s jump right into it!!!
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About Zain Jaffer:
Zain Jaffer is an accomplished executive, investor, and entrepreneur. He started his first company at the age of 14 and later moved to the US as an immigrant to found Vungle, after securing $25M from tech giants including Google & AOL in 2011. Vungle recently sold for $780m.
His achievements have garnered international recognition and acclaim; he is the recipient of prestigious awards such as “Forbes 30 Under 30”, “Inc. Magazine’s 35 Under 35” and the “SF Business Times Tech & Innovation Award”. He is regularly featured in major business & tech publications such as The Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch.
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