Episode 47: From Executive to Entrepreneur: David Stifter’s Journey to Disrupting PropTech
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David Stifter shares his journey from executive to entrepreneur, discussing the challenges and solutions in the PropTech space.
What if your company’s entire financial operation relied on the memory of a single employee? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with David Stifter, founder of PredictAP. David spent a year searching for a tech solution to handle the 500,000+ invoices he managed at a massive private equity fund. When he couldn't find one, he left his executive role to build it himself. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: The Complexity of Real Estate: Why paying a utility bill for a $100 million office building is 100x harder than buying a coffee. Strategic Fundraising: How PredictAP moved from "Friends and Family" to institutional backing from groups like RET Ventures and Wise Ventures. Relationship-Led Growth: The secret to getting a CFO to give you their "guinea pig" data for a beta test. The "Feedback Loop": Why keeping a "person in the loop" is the only way to prevent AI from "hallucinating" on your financial records. Featured Guest: David Stifter David is the founder and CEO of PredictAP. With over two decades of experience in real estate accounting and the "Yardi" ecosystem, he is a problem-solver who turned a back-office nightmare into a…
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