Theo K. Browne: Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Jon Boller from Grid Consulting

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with my friend and former colleague Jon Boller, co-founder of Grid Consulting. Jon and I worked at Zillow together “back in the day”. He was one of the first 5 inside sales representatives Zillow hired in 2008, consistently outperformed the vast majority, and rose through the ranks over the years to lead the new ventures team.

Without further ado…

What do you do?

I am the Co-Founder of Grid Consulting, we work with growth-oriented team leaders and brokers on their strategy and operations to improve their margins & ROI.

What problem does your product/service solve?

The real estate industry has a million products, coaching programs, and lead sources that professionals pay for, however, there isn’t one company that focuses on helping the agent get more out of their dollar. I spent 9+ years at Zillow Group as the Senior Director of the New Ventures team, this new company is our way of taking what we learned from Zillow Group building multiple 100+ teams that were operationally strong and applying our learnings objectively for a small subset of growth-oriented leaders. We are here to help you make more money frankly.

What are you most excited about right now?

Disruption and the uncertainty of the Real Estate industry. There’s so much Venture Capital money flowing in and some are making big bets, others are just kind of dipping their toes into the water. I’m pumped to see whose big swings pay off and what the industry looks like in 12 to 24 months.

What’s next for you?

We’re building a brand that is going to be synonymous with success in Real Estate. The beauty in being independent is that we can attack challenges and problems from a super objective place, we’ve always been known for our speed, execution, and ability to think 2 years ahead, now we get to apply that for a broader group of professional partners. I feel more inspired and enlightened now than ever before.

What’s a cause you’re passionate about and why?

I’m passionate about people chasing their dreams and continually evolving.

You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling, and if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling, you have hit the jackpot, cause that’s the big deal.
– Bezos

Thanks to Jon for sharing his story. If you’d like to connect, find him on LinkedIn here.

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