Real estate entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and Forbes author.   Here to talk:  🏠 Real Estate 🏦 Financial Markets 📈 Investments 📱 Fin-tech 🏗 Prop-tech   What I enjoy most: helping entrepreneurs and organizations leverage insight and build viable businesses.   Currently: co-founder and managing director of Plunk, a new AI-driven fintech company dedicated to the residential real estate market.   Read the Tape: I learned the value of paying attention to what’s in front of us and how to use information to predict behaviors, leverage opportunities and achieve game-changing results while I was a trader at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.   I used this same method when I purchased a nearly bankrupt real estate firm in coastal Orange County, California during the 2008 “Great Recession,” which I sold 10 years later to create the world’s second-largest Sotheby’s International Realty brokerage, with 1,200 agents and annual sales exceeding $7 billion.   Blog: mikesshapiro.com | Podcast: ForbesRadio