My name is Donald DeSantis. In 2013 I co-founded a real estate technology company. By 2015 we had grown the team to over a hundred people and been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work” by Crains New York. In 2016 we merged with another company to accelerate our shared vision. That company is called VTS.
Today VTS is a unicorn and one of the most successful SaaS companies in the real estate vertical. The company has over 10 billion square feet of real estate on our platform, or roughly half of all office high-rises in the United States.
Building the team was the most satisfying part of the journey, but also the most challenging. After leaving VTS I wanted to answer a seemingly simple question: