LiveNearFriends is on a mission to help people live happier, healthier and more connected lives. We believe that home is more than the walls of your house – it’s about the people in close proximity.
The product is a social real estate platform that allows people to find housing within a short walk of friends and family. This is a common fantasy (⅔ of people really want it according to one of our recent surveys), and our job is to make it a reality. We break down the behavioral, logistical and real estate barriers to making their dream lifestyle possible.
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Initially, we are focused on helping people make the dream happen using existing housing stock “in the wild” – whether it’s coordinating the purchase and rental of homes within a short radius, co-buying a home with an ADU, or leasing multiple units of an apartment building.
But our eventual goal is to change the nature of the built environment itself. We will spur developers to build new housing specifically for groups rather than individuals or atomic family units. We will work with lenders to underwrite groups rather than individuals
We want fences to come down. We want neighborhoods to be reinvigorated. We want places to have meaning. We want cities to look different in the next century than they did in the former one.
We want to shift how people think about place and inextricably tie it to the people nearby.
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CEO Phil Levin was a founding team member of Culdesac (the first car-free real estate developer in the US, $200m+ raised) and started Radish - a groundbreaking co-owned housing cluster with 19 people (and their 5 kids) in Oakland.
LiveNearFriends is backed by top proptech and consumer tech investors. We’ve been covered in Axios, Business Insider and The Guardian.
Read about living near friends in The Atlantic, Bloomberg News, and in Culture Study.
LiveNearFriends is hiring someone to drive Business Development / Growth. This is a full-time role in the San Francisco Bay Area (no remote candidates). You will work in person with Phil, the CEO, at least 3 days a week.
You own our user funnel from initial interest to eventual purchase or rental of a home. This means growing both a) the number of groups that want to live near each other and b) the number of people involved in each group. You will then need to employ strategies to get them over the hump of taking action by buying or renting homes.
We have ambitious year 1 targets and the person in this role will have to work hard to achieve them.
You will first focus on cracking the code in our initial focus market (the Bay Area) and then create the playbook to replicate it to other markets. One possible path: If successful, the role could mature to oversee operations across a number of key markets regionally or nationally.
In prior roles, you might have worked on growth, sales, ops, been a chief of staff, or an entrepreneur yourself.