meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
This Week in Startups

The Next Unicorns: Adena Hefets CEO of Divvy Homes, forging a new path to home ownership | E1246

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

To kick off this season of "The Next Unicorns," Adena Hefets, CEO of Divvy Homes, joins to discuss how they are helping Americans blaze a path to owning a home (2:51), if we are in a real estate bubble (25:37), the American home shortage (34:53) and more!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We got an amazing episode for you today. Adina Heffetz is with us.

0:06.8

She is the founder of Divi Homes and she talks about how she is helping people go from renters

0:13.5

to home buyers and we talk about the entire real estate market and how it's changing in 2021 and how

0:21.5

crazy it's been post pandemic during the pandemic. And this is all part of the next unicorn season

0:28.0

number three. Yes, you remember the first two seasons of the next unicorns. This is where we look

0:33.5

for companies that are over a hundred million dollars in valuation up to maybe 500 million.

0:39.6

And we introduce you to the companies we think my research team thinks will become the next

0:45.2

unicorns that will go public that you'll be talking about. Let's say in 2025, 2024.

0:51.8

So we like to look at our crystal ball and say, hey, does this company have the ability to get

0:56.4

to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and eventually billions of dollars in revenue.

1:01.6

So we're kicking off our first season with this amazing episode about Divi Homes. It's a really,

1:07.2

really interesting company. I'm in love with real estate and I love this model of letting people

1:12.7

rent to own part of your rent goes towards a down payment, really clever idea. And we need more

1:19.3

ideas like this so that people here in America can go from renters to homeowners, which becomes a

1:25.0

beautiful way for people to move up into the next Shrata, the next stage in life where they can

1:32.1

have wealth accumulate and we have more economic equality here in the United States.

1:38.0

If you want to see previous seasons of our next unicorn series and track this one,

1:43.2

you can go to thisweekandstartups.com slash unicorns. Okay, let's get to it. Stick with us.

1:50.4

Season three of the next unicorns is brought to you by Odo is a fully customizable and fully

1:58.6

integrated suite of business apps that lets you build and scale your stack as you build and scale

2:04.5

your business. Your first app is free forever and right now Odo is offering $1,000 off your first

2:12.7

implementation pack at odo.com slash twist. That's odo.com slash twist.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Calacanis, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Calacanis and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.