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Ben Bear

@BenBear

Cofounder, CEO @_TurboHome + @BuildCasa. Tweets abt housing, policy, and startups. Prev CEO @ Spin (acquired by @Ford) + VP @ Vungle (acquired by @Blackstone).

Oakland, CA Katılım Aralık 2009
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Ben Bear
Ben Bear@BenBear·
Charlie Munger has a famous quote: "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome." Both political parties have made homeownership a key priority while decrying the rise of build to rent communities funded by Wall Street. One big driver is that the tax code is nearly twice as favorable if new homes are sold to investors vs. homeowners. Today in the @washingtonpost I argue that by creating tax parity, we can incentivize developers to build hundreds of thousands of starter homes without the need for subsidies, creating 2-3 new good paying construction jobs for every home built.
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
@taobanker Be really smart, get a few wins early, and have a personality/vibe that makes the senior people see you as a younger version of themselves and want to mentor you.
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
Frank Slootman from Snowflake had a great description of this. Companies/markets are like elevators. Some are going up fast, some are going up slow, and some are going down. Getting on the right elevators has a bigger effect than almost anything else on career outcomes. linkedin.com/posts/adammcon…
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Kathryn Wu
Kathryn Wu@kathrynwu1·
In SF, you can make $400k–500k at a big tech company and still feel behind. A lot of people have intense FOMO around AI right now. Not necessarily because of money, but because they feel the center of gravity is shifting somewhere else. It also made me realize how much career outcomes come down to directional taste: what markets you choose, when you pivot, what you decide to bet your time on.
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
@rohindhar True but 200M MAU is hard to replicate without doing something much better. Homes.com burned billions and couldn’t get meaningful portal market share.
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Rohin Dhar
Rohin Dhar@rohindhar·
Was talking to a startup yesterday that mentioned being weary of taking on Zillow bc of their deep network effects Zillow doesn’t have networks effects, it’s nothing to be afraid of You could license the same MLS data as Zillow and wham, your product is a good as Zillow’s day one! Your “Zillow killer” doesn’t need lots of people using it to make the product better. It’s as good as Zillow if even one person uses it Contrast this with other marketplaces like Airbnb, EBay, etc that has a proprietary supply in its marketplace and strong network effects bc of that
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Degen CPA@DrewVento·
BREAKING: Victor Wembanyama has joined Anthropic.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
Allow data centers but only if 20% of the GPUs are set aside as “affordable” compute for low-income agents.
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Will McKelvey
Will McKelvey@Will_McKelvey·
a16z is going to lead a $50M series A for kled powered by spite alone
Avi Patel@avipat_

General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

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Dan Lewin
Dan Lewin@Dan__Lewin·
@BenBear @PaulSteidl @BuildCasa I thought you had to demolish/condemn the house as uninhabitable and have a vacant lot to do sb-1123. Is that a misunderstanding? Or is it up to city by city discretion on this? Looks like a great project, congrats @BuildCasa and the team!
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
1 -> 11 homes in LA Super proud of the work @PaulSteidl and our @BuildCasa team are doing to bring infill stater homes to great neighborhoods where people want to live like this project in Echo Park. Because of SB1123, this project is by right with a 60 day permitting shot clock. Even better, this project keeps the existing home and mirrors the historic zone look from the street.
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Paul Steidl@PaulSteidl

I'm the architect on this project. As a ministerial project we're not required to meet non-objective HPOZ standards but we're excited to introduce new units that are inspired by the surrounding neighborhood. Here's what it looks like from the street.

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Arthur Gailes
Arthur Gailes@ArthurGailes·
Allowing more homes makes cities money. Starter homes on smaller lots makes them substantially more money. @AEI: we put report the revenue cities would earn by lowering minimum lot sizes and legalizing by-right starter homes. For LA, around $9 billion. For Seattle, about $1B 1/
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Paul Steidl
Paul Steidl@PaulSteidl·
I'm the architect on this project. As a ministerial project we're not required to meet non-objective HPOZ standards but we're excited to introduce new units that are inspired by the surrounding neighborhood. Here's what it looks like from the street.
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Joe Cohen@CohenSite

Woah, a really cool SB 1123 project in a historic neighborhood in Los Angeles that adds 10 homes while preserving an existing house and fitting in with the character

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Moses Kagan
Moses Kagan@moseskagan·
@BenBear The cost of setting it up would be negligible... like, I think you could vibe code it Then I bet you could figure out how to leverage existing PM company websites to get distro Anyway the risk / reward is very asymetrical to the upside
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Moses Kagan
Moses Kagan@moseskagan·
As Zillow increasingly monopolizes apartment leasing leads in the major metros: Boggles my mind that the big property management software co's (Appfolio, Yardi, etc.) haven't banded together to create a competitor (like the TV networks did w Hulu). They already have all the content!
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Tyler | Kenji Capital
Tyler | Kenji Capital@KenjiCapital·
Oakland home prices declined YoY according to Zillow. But then you see a house sell for $1.6M OVER asking price. And a 924 sq ft condo go for $1.05M… Wild. cc: @BayAreaREMatt
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Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys·
Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity. @skaushik100 sfchronicle.com/election/artic…
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Ben Bear
Ben Bear@BenBear·
@Akwosiwjaiwnsi1 Reached out to partner after they covered TurboHome in an article
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
SF is the hottest real estate market in the country, with 88% of homes selling over ask in April. Today we’re launching TurboHome Markets: a free prediction game that’s basically Zillow × Polymarket. Predict what 5 homes sell for daily, learn the market with AI driven insights, and win prizes like World Cup tickets. Play for free at turbohome.markets or starting tomorrow embedded in @sfstandard's game section.
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Ben Bear@BenBear·
@JohnA31766772 Limited supply + AI boom + better perception thanks to Lurie
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Renaissance man
Renaissance man@JohnA31766772·
@BenBear how did it go from super bad to super hot overnight. i never counted sf out but the way it turned around is pretty amazing. i guess when sacramento is cooking under 125 degree heat sf will be the place to be. i should have bought a place 2 years ago.
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