Bottom line up front: I’m teaching a free live course on web3 Real Estate Investing. It starts the evening of Tuesday, October 11 and you can sign up here.
Do you remember the early days of social media and YouTube? I do.
No one really took it seriously. The joke was that Facebook and Twitter were only useful for sharing what you had for lunch. YouTube was just a place to see pirated clips of Saturday Night Live and silly videos like David After the Dentist
You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
When people first started tweeting about the burrito that had for lunch, or posting videos of pranks, no one dreamed of the possibility of Twitter and Facebook fueling the Arab Spring
…or people building multi-million dollar empires as YouTube and Instagram “influencers”
…or a US President using Twitter to post dozens of, um, updates of what’s on his mind all day every day
…or documenting the Russia-Ukraine war in real time
People thought Mark Zuckerberg was crazy to turn down $1 billion offered by Yahoo. Now Facebook grosses $1 billion every four days!
Back then it was called Web 2.0 and while there was some excitement about the technology, no one had any idea of how large it would become.
In retrospect, the mid 2000s were the start of a decade-long transition that not only created enormous amounts of wealth but also led to the reordering of international institutions, even national borders!
What if you could go back in time and take advantage of the rise of these new platforms? Remember, most of it seemed ridiculously silly and trivial at the time, but the underlying technologies and incentives they created went on to create trillions of dollars in value.
Great Transitions Create Great Opportunity
What if I told you that we are at the very beginning of a new transition? One that will play out over the next 25 years?
I am here to tell you that this is the future of web3. Right now we mostly are in the “tweeting about burritos” stage but we are rapidly transitioning into value creation.
The last 25 years have been about two mega trends:
connecting people with each other for communications (email, social media) and
connecting corporations to people for transactions (e-commerce, trade)
The next 25 will be about connecting everything to everything else for transactions.
Call it the web3 World Order
The web3 World Order will be one where not just companies and people are connected, but also people and assets, and assets and people, and assets to other assets. The possible combinations are breathtaking.
web3 protocols makes it possible for large groups of people to self-organize around transactions with assets of every type — real estate, business, art, music and even other web3 protocols. For example:
Wanna buy a small share of a house in chunks of $50? Check out Lofty
How about getting together with some friends and strangers and buy an original copy of the Constitution?Join ConstitutionDAO
Maybe you want to create a series of co-living space for creatives all over the world? Join CabinDAO
Or maybe you want to go overseas and lend money to developing markets? Goldfinch
And it that’s not ambitious enough, how about creating an entire, frickin’ city? Join CityDAO.
These are just a handful of opportunities that are available right now. The key insight to understand is that, because these assets are “on chain,” their operations are radically more transparent than anything we’ve seen before. This transparency teaches and incentives entrepreneurs all over the world to find new opportunities to put on chain, and makes it far easier for investors to find and evaluate their operations in real time.
As more and more people join the web3 revolution, the number of available assets will 10x, then 10x again. And again. And again. By 2050 there’s a very high likelihood that the house or office or coffee shop where you are sitting right now will be reporting its financial results in real time on a web3-enabled dashboard.
If it’s not obvious by now, you will have access to more investment opportunities than ever and they will be all over the globe. Heck, if SpaceX and Blue Horizon keep making progress, there will even be investments in space too!
House flipping took off in the early 2000s because tens of thousands of people taught themselves through online courses. Then companies like Zillow came along to make finding and analyzing houses easier than ever.
A few years later, cheap capital, Excel underwriting templates and widely accessible demographic data empowered savvy investors to acquire thousands of multifamily, self-storage and mobile home properties all across the country, creating hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth.
We are at the very beginning of a similar process for real estate in web3
Again, imagine going back in time to right after YouTube and Facebook and Instagram launched. Knowing what you know now, what kinds of investments would you have made? How would that knowledge affect your career choices?
Sign up for my free course today, and learn how you can profit from the coming web3 World Order.
Who is this course for?
Professional real estate operators who want to get an edge by knowing what the future holds
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investors who want to better understand how web3 and real estate interact
Passive investors who want to make better investing decisions using up to date technology
Schedule
We will do LIVE lessons every Monday for four weeks starting Tuesday, October 11 at 8 pm eastern time.
Can't make the live course? No worries! We are making the content available as a podcast so you can listen on the go, and we will post the video recordings too.
But Wait, there's More! 😀
Just by being here, you already are on the leading edge of a massive transformation that will ripple through the economy for a generation. By joining this course you automatically are added to REI DAO, a community of experienced and trustworthy real estate investors leading the charge into web3 real estate.