
Founder & CEO @luxurypresence. Ex @stanfordgsb.
Santa Monica, CA
Joined April 2014
- Tweets199
- Following276
- Followers172
- Likes517
Malte retweeted
Another awesome Founder Day last week with @AnthropicAI team in their offices and over 100+ @BessemerVP founders!
We heard firsthand from @izrailevsky of @ClickHouseDB, @anuraggoel of @render, & Jesse Pedersen of @LuxuryPresence on what’s working in production and the future of agents.
We also heard the latest from Anthropic’s team on what they’re building for their customers at the frontier: physical AI, the Model Hardware Standard, and more. There's never been a more exciting time to build a company!
Thank you @katelyn_lesse, @jneuwirth4, @jarredsumner, @jozhukennedy, Max Kirby, Alek Kemeny, Gaby Wilkerson-Melnick, @RLanceMartin, and to the entire Anthropic team for a great afternoon!
I build AI tools for 20,000 real estate agents. Two years ago I thought commissions would decline. I was wrong. The NAR lawsuit didn't move them. AI didn't either. Turns out relational work is becoming more valuable, not less.
My wife is a real estate agent. She uses our product every day. Features that help her make money get used. Features that save her time get ignored. We build all our AI around that one insight.
40 investors said no to our Series A. Then my visa expired and I had 7 days to leave the country. Flew to Germany, kept taking investor meetings from there. Closed the round from a kitchen table in Freiburg.
You can build a beautiful platform, sign thousands of agents, and still fail if they leave after 6 months. This is why retention is Luxury Presence’s #1 metric.
- Doubled the average leads per customer over the last 12 months
- Launched 24/7 customer support, achieving 96% CSAT
- Upgraded our MLS integration to sync in under 30 minutes
Zillow’s new policy leaves little room for those exceptions and raises some questions:
- What about sellers who aren't ready for full publicity?
- Will other brokerages accept this quietly or push back?
- Will the DOJ get involved?


