Brynne McNulty Rojas: Leading Colombia’s Real Estate Industry into the Future, Ep 135

<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 24pt;">Brynne McNulty Rojas: Leading Colombia’s Real Estate Industry into the Future, Ep 135</span></p> <p><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> <br /> Born and raised in New Jersey, Brynne McNulty Rojas’ interest in the real estate industry goes back to one of her classes about international housing finance systems while an undergraduate at Wharton, where she learned about how property ownership rights in informal communities drive economic development.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating, she joined Goldman Sachs where she spent 4 years investing in property across the US. She later joined a proptech startup in New York before studying for two years at Harvard, and spent time at a San Francisco online mortgage origination startup. These experiences made her aware of how tech was affecting an antiquated industry, something that remained with her as she moved to another country. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I sat down with Brynne to talk more about her experience in real estate and decision to start Habi. We also discuss the process of buying and selling a property in Colombia and how Habi is improving it, and some of her learnings from raising US capital. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Previous experience paired up with a fragmented market</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moving to Colombia and starting a company hadn’t been part of Brynne’s professional plans, but after graduating from Harvard she moved to Colombia with her husband. Brynne initially joined McKinsey as a consultant, but had become increasingly aware of the inefficiencies in the Colombian real estate market and saw the opportunity to solve them. She also met her Habi co-founder, Sebastian, a successful entrepreneur, and decided to make the jump and build Habi. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span