Special Edition: LightBox CEO Eric Frank on How Connecting CRE Data Lays the Foundation for Smarter Decisions

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LightBox CEO Eric Frank discusses the modernization of commercial real estate data and technology in a special 100th episode.

To mark the 100th episode of the CRE Weekly Digest, co-hosts Manus Clancy and Dianne Crocker welcomed LightBox CEO Eric Frank for a wide-ranging conversation on the how and why he set out to modernize one of the world’s largest asset classes: commercial real estate. Eric traced the origins of LightBox to a simple observation: CRE was 20 to 25 years behind other financial markets in the maturity of its data and technology ecosystem. Eric described the imminent launch of LightBox Live, wh...

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Hosts: Manus Clancy, Dianne Crocker

Guest: Eric Frank

Topics covered

• commercial real estate
• data modernization
• technology ecosystem
• business decisions
• LightBox Live

Keywords

• commercial real estate
• data
• technology
• LightBox
• business decisions
• Eric Frank

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Organizations: LightBox

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