Rohit Mathur

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If I had unlimited money, this is how I would dominate CRE brokerage: 1. Get Data - Hire VA's to scrape data providers - Get TLO for mobile and emails - Have cold caller's verify ownership - Build Top 150 clients list, cambridge analytica that shit 2. Top of Funnel - Built Newsletter personalized content based on FB, IG, credit card, and user intent data - Hire content team, produce 150-300 pieces of content per week - VA Cold Callers call owners to see if they would sell. Low fruit. - VA text outreach with personalization based on data - Drip email sequences, hyper-personalized 3. Client Retention - Hire people to create "unreasonable hospitality" magic moments for my leads/clients - Find charitable causes I believe in, invite owners to event for charity - Poker Nights - Client Events - Bfast Meetings with top 150 everyday - SOP's for market updates and automate news 4. Sales Execution - Mass texts with pre-market/off-market deals - AI buyer and seller match system based on previous purchase history and current buyer criteria - AI OM and single property website creation - AI Social Media graphics for listings - Mass email based on buyer criteria and data - 1031 exchange tracker and fund lifecycles 5. Team Building - Full SOP and video recordings for agent training - Team events for rapport building - Daily training calls/ meetings - Round Robin lead distribution - Personal Brand infrastructure for agents to plug into - CRM supersystem included This to me would be a tech company that sells real estate. The scale and speed would be unmatched and the amount of personalized data would be the winning ticket. The main differentiator would be the level of personalization as not to spam owners but provide real value based upon their data and conversations. These are the systems I think about when I lay in bed at night. One day, I will make this a reality.

2025 was a great and wild year here at @Bridgemktplace 🌉 — Year 2 complete ✅✅ A few moments we’re proud of (and are disclosing on the internet): 🥇 $500M+ in deals closed 📢 165+ lenders found deals through the platform 📔 5× growth in AUM for our servicing portfolio Our volume exploded, and the pace at which we built new products and features accelerated dramatically (maybe the AI thing is real?). We also launched new partnerships with Hotel Partners 🏨 and Big-box retailers 🏪. We’re deeply grateful to the hospitality and CPG leaders — our Corporate Partners — who trusted us with their suppliers and franchisees. Most importantly, thank you to our clients to took a chance on us and found better financing solutions through us! In December, our Bridge US team got together in New York to celebrate 2025, plan for 2026, and answer the critical question: how many pizza stops is too many? (We think the limit is five 🍕). As my co-founder Harte Thompson put it: “We’re not sure exactly when it happened, but at some point this year, something clicked. We stopped feeling like a group of people working hard and started feeling like a team running together.” There’s no great management lesson to pass along — just momentum, trust, and a shared sense of purpose. At times, working at an early-stage fintech feels like running straight toward a brick wall. I’d run through any brick wall with this team. Every day. Lets win. Onward to 2026 🚀

So I take it everyone realized today that 90%+ hotels are franchised?

@ankurnagpal It's so easy to use points for company travel / team activities (we've used points for our holiday party, travel etc.)

Hot take: Startup founders using company credit card points for personal travel is low-level fraud

India will meet South Africa in the #CWC25 Final 🤩🇮🇳

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Don't most banks have a single name cap of 10%? Wonder how they were getting over that concentration issue. On pricing- we've seen that pricing (6.75% and lower) even before the recent rate cut. 1.15x far more uncommon. Feels like a bridge loan with bank pricing. Is there a huge deposit story with the borrower?

Looked at a hotel participation loan yesterday. Great location and solid property. The lead bank is keeping 23% of their capital worth in the loan which is nuts given that the project DSCR is a 1.15x at prime -50bps. I passed on the deal.

Looking forward to @LodgingEvent in a few weeks @Bridgemktplace will for the first time have a booth in the foyer! Come meet us at booth L2! Also if you want to talk about hotel lending, fintech or where the market is- reach out!

Don't get me wrong- I think it's insane that we've gone from $250 for a card to $900; but the competition will make Citi/JPM/CapOne step it up on the card game

I'm putting $400 resy + $200 Uber credit + $300 subscription credit in the first bucket- most people in NYC eat at a restaurant on Resy, most people use uber, most people have Hulu/wsj/nytimes subscriptions; all the other stuff is just gravy at that point

For people living in NYC and other big cities - I bet the @AmericanExpress platinum base grows. It's $900 now which is a lot, but feels like ~$750 is very easily usable between the "we use this anyway spend" even before the "good to have but don't need spend"

@NWischoff We have spent the last 2 years on franchise financing- only fintech focused on hotels and now UPS stores. Happy to connect! @Bridgemktplace

Looking to learn as much as I can about franchising. Any experts here who would spend a few minutes with me?

This is so awful. Feel so sad for the victims - the NYPD officer who was trying to protect people, others who were just going about their work. I worked in the building right next door(53 and Lex/Park) for 5+ years and so this really hit home. 🙏🏽

@austin_rief Completely agree. We've been doing 1) lot more take out, 2) calling the restaurant directly and getting the in-house delivery(very few offer this). Absolutely 100% want to tip the delivery person but the fees are going to the platforms instead.

$30 in fees just to get delivery in NYC. That feels unsustainable.

@CostarHotels @Hilton The financing market is hard but technology and AI can help non-institutional developers get an edge!

In order to help smaller franchisees find financing, @Hilton launched a partnership with Bridge — an online platform designed to connect businesses with lenders and streamline the application process. bit.ly/3HXqGA9

We're doing a lot deals! Reach out on financing for hotels!! Hilton seeks to kick-start development for smaller hotel companies with Bridge partnership costar.com/article/965627… @Bridgemktplace

Just saw this and people are questioning if the numbers are correct. What I do know is that private credit seems to be growing rapidly. The question is if they can maintain yield requirements.

@pitdesi Pop up bagel! Did you try it? Also Kebeb aur Sharab for Indian is excellent!

Lived in New York for the past 3 months and absolutely loved it. Here are some of my favorite picks. If you disagree, please suggest alternatives for me to enjoy on my next visit! North Indian: Angel (Jackson Heights) or Bungalow (East Village), but I didn’t find either to be as good as the hype Home-style Indian: Punjabi Deli (East Village) Dosa: Semma (West Village) or Pradyumna Cafe (Jersey City) Thai: Mitr (Midtown) Greek: Kiki’s Falafel: King of Falafel (cart on 53rd) or Shosh (West Village) Ethiopian: Bunna Cafe (Bushwick) Pizza (not NY-style): Masala Margherita at Onion Tree (East Village) NY pizza: Fini / Ceres / Johns Bleecker / Scarrs Italian (non-pizza): Zero Otto Nove (Arthur Ave), Leon's (Union Square) Bagel: Brooklyn Bagel (ironically NOT actually in Brooklyn) Donut: Moe’s (Greenpoint) Croissant: Rose Pistachio at Librae (Cooper Sq) Cookies: La Mercerie (SoHo), Red Gate (East Village) or Funny Face & Levain (both similar, and yes I like VC-backed cookie companies… and also why doesn’t someone just replicate Levain on the West Coast?) Gelato: Cafe Panna (Union Square) Bar: StEight (little Japanese speakeasy in East Village) Form of transport: CitiBike Musical: Death Becomes Her thank you for your attention to this matter!