Ruth Melcho: When Real Estate Is Part of a Bigger Plan
She's a self-described connector who works across residential, commercial, land, and mobile homes. By design. The reason is the team she can build behind every client.
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How Bruce Is Becoming a Public Benefit Company: Eric Ries Advises Bruce on Staying Incorruptible
We are becoming a Public Benefit Company. Eric Ries, who advised Anthropic on the same structure, sat down to advise us on the first principle to encode, and on how to tell, years from now, whether we kept it.
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How Watching Her Family Lose Their Home Shaped Everything Helen Chong Built Next
Helen Chong came to America at 18 alone. Her family had already lost their home. Today she's a top 1.5% real estate professional in the country, building security for first-generation buyers, the kind she had to invent for herself.
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Why Chris Brooke Built an Insurance Agency That Leads With Questions, Not Policies
He bought the cheapest policy he could find, and learned the hard way what 'cheap' actually costs. Now he runs his agency to make sure his clients never make the same mistake.
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Lenny Rachitsky on Building Without Code
Lenny Rachitsky built one of the most influential newsletters in tech. The week we spoke, he'd also shipped a soundboard of his son's voice for his wife and a website that scrapes images out of Google Docs. Here's the playbook he says any non-tech operator can run this weekend.
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Debbi DiMaggio: How Mindset Built a 35-Year Real Estate Career
She ran the LA Marathon on a month's notice without training her body. Mile 18 nearly broke her. The same principle has carried 35 years of real estate.
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"I Ain't Talking to No Bot": How a Skeptical Mortgage Officer Became Bruce User #1
His first reaction to AI-made warm introductions: "I ain't talking to no bot." Today he's Bruce User #1, and the 3 hours a day he used to spend cold calling have quietly disappeared.