Season 4, Episode 11: Jack Stone and Alex Gornik sit down with Yaakov Zar, Founder & CEO of Lev, to unpack how a former tech entrepreneur is changing the way commercial real estate deals get done. Before launching Lev, Yaakov built and sold his first company, Dispatch, to Vista Equity Partners.

Today, he’s at the center of CRE’s tech transformation—blending capital markets expertise with AI and automation to simplify how investors and developers secure financing. He shares the story behind Lev’s pivot from brokerage to software, what’s next for AI in real estate, and how data and design will define the next generation of real estate technology.

TOPICS
00:00 – Introduction
03:00 – Startup Roots and Dispatch Exit
08:44 – How Mortgage Frustration Became Lev’s Origin
14:25 – Digitizing the Financing Experience
19:45 – AI and the Future of CRE Software
25:02 – How Lev Memo Is Changing Deal Execution
31:10 – Agentic AI and Workflow Automation
36:47 – Harnessing Data and Unstructured Information
41:00 – Brokers, Efficiency and Industry Adoption
45:18 – Building Great Software and Leading Through Change

Shoutout to our sponsor, Lev. The AI-powered way to get real estate deals financed.

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