Leopard.FYI Virtual AMA with the Rentana Leadership Team 👋🏡💜
Join us for a Low Key Virtual AMA with the Rentana Leadership team: Julie Blanc Co-Founder & CEO at Rentana, Patricia Li Co-Founder (Engineering) at Rentana and Benjamin Bayard Chief Technology Officer at Rentana!
Rentana is building the first-of-its-kind revenue intelligence platform built for multifamily owners and operators. Rentana’s founding team has built four multi-billion dollar software companies and two prop-tech companies that have sold to Appfolio (Dynasty) and Airbnb (Urbandoor)!
We’ll chat through:
The Rentana Backstory: Lessons from Stripe, Airtable, and proptech that led them to rethink outdated, spreadsheet-driven pricing systems in real estate
Understanding Rentana's Product/Market:
Rentana's platform manages over $200M in rent, providing pricing intelligence to customers. Most customers are real estate owners, managers, public companies, and family businesses
How they are replacing large incumbents and have had paying customers since their early days
How they achieved product-market fit and significant scale with a 10-person team
What the Team/Culture is like @ Rentana
Team: 12 team members, 4 on the engineering team . Fully remote, high-autonomy environment.
Tech Stack: Typescript, GraphQL, React, AWS Lambda, Javascript, Node.js, Python
Technical Challenges: Building scalable, real-time systems in a complex, data-heavy domain
Funding/Investors: Raised $5M in Seed round, multiple years of runway
Hiring & why now:
Opportunity to shape product, culture, and technical direction early
Open Q&A: Ask anything about the product, architecture, culture, company trajectory etc!
More about our speakers:
Julie Blanc, Co-Founder & CEO, previously spent the last decade scaling enterprise software businesses as an operator and VC at Array, DRL, and top-tier firms Insight Venture Partners, Two Sigma, and Accel.
Patricia Li, Technical Co-Founder (More about her here) Prior to this role, she worked as a Software Engineer at Airtable, where she worked on various projects including the Android app and Google Drive integration. She also has experience as a Software Engineer at Google, focusing on the Google search app for Android TV.
Benjamin Bayard, Technical Co-Founder & CTO (More about him here), previously at Stripe, where he is known for his work on building software infrastructure for the thousands of developers there (and his impossibly cute dog, Kylo). Before that was at Patreon as a staff engineer for the FE Core (web infra team). He built the internationalization framework, improved web performance, and worked with their open-source tooling.
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