SaaS Growth Strategies, Trends and Building a Profitable Real Estate Portfolio with Perry Zheng # 148

Perry Zheng is the founder and CEO of Cash Flow Portal, real estate syndication software, and a real investor portal founded in April 2020. Before starting to work on Cash Flow Portal full-time, Perry was an engineering manager at Lyft for 5 years and worked as a software engineer at Twitter and Amazon before that. He started real estate syndication over three years ago and now has more than 2000 units, raised over $20M for real estate projects and is a lead sponsor on two deals totalling 850+ apartment units.His goal is to help other syndicators groups succeed and overcome common challenges like raising capital and finding deals even while having full-time jobs. By July 2021, he helped four syndication groups raise $30MM+ of capital by having investors sign docs automatically on the platform.During this interview we cover:00:00 Oribi.io Smarter Data-Driven & Analytics Decisions01:02 - Intro02:09 - Juggling Three Jobs + Grow a SaaS Startup04:40 - Perry's Work Management06:21 - Getting Productive & Focusing on People's Strength08:28 - Hire The Most Talented or The One With The Best Resume?10:10 - Raising Capital For Real Estate12:30 - The Best Time to Look for a Real Estate SaaS14:35 - How to Become a RE Investor & How Perry Started24:47 - The Big Risk On Moving From SaaS to Real Estate25:25 - Perry's Biggest Lesson on Changing from SaaS to RE28:42 - Contentfy.co Your On-Demand Podcast Editing Team30:09 - Perry's Vision of The RE Future & Why No Commercials?35:55 - Growing a SaaS Organically36:29 - Perry's 4 Mistakes on Starting a SaaS38:30 - Real Estate Buying or Renting?39:26 - Perry's Background & building Cash Flow Portal43:09 - Cash Flow Portal's Success Without Marketing44:48 - Long Term Vision for Cash Flow Portal47:01 - Advice Perry Would Give to His 25 Years Old-Self48:10 - Perry’s Greatest Challenges as Being CEO at Cash Flow Portal49:35 - Instrumental Resources For Perry's Success51:29 -  What Does Success Mean To Perry Today54:18 - Get in Touch With PerryMentions:OneNoteAmazonGet In Touch With Perry:Perry Zheng’s LinkedinTag us & follow:Facebook LinkedIn Instagram More about Akeel:Twitter LinkedIn Saas PodcastSaaS ConsultingHow to Value a SaaS...