March 9, 2018

The Rewards of ‘Amazingly Flat’ Management

Every Monday, “we bring the whole company together,” said Crosby, who is the chief executive at PeerStreet, a person-to-person lending startup in Manhattan Beach, Calif. “It’s an expensive meeting, because it’s a lot of people’s time. But we think it’s important. We go through our metrics, talk about what happened last week, talk about what’s happening this week.”

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March 9, 2018

Fintech Company Announces New Head of Commercial Real Estate

PeerStreet, a platform for investing in real estate-backed loans, has hired Greg Galusha as head of commercial real estate.

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March 9, 2018

PeerStreet Names Greg Galusha Head of Commercial Real Estate

Mr. Galusha is responsible for leading PeerStreet’s growing commercial real estate division, which will help PeerStreet expand and enhance the current spectrum of commercial real estate investments offered through its marketplace.

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March 8, 2018

How Fintech Firms Get Peak Performance from Employees

"What we’ve found is that it always works better when we do the whole hiring process, we get everyone together," Crosby said. "It gets multiple people thinking about how that candidate is going to fit in and whether they are a good culture fit."

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March 7, 2018

To Keep Burnout in Check, PeerStreet Mixes Play with Hard Work

Johnson, PeerStreet’s CEO, boils it down to this: “We’ve tried to create a place where Brett and I would want to work.”

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March 5, 2018

Best Fintechs to Work For

“We’ve tried to create a place where we’d like to work,” said PeerStreet Chief Executive Brew Johnson.

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February 20, 2018

LendIt Industry Awards

PeerStreet is nominated as "Top Real Estate Platform" in the 2018 LendIt Industry Awards.

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February 13, 2018

American Dream: Real Estate Experts

The American Dream is the only TV show that goes against the negative sensationalist style of journalism often seen in media. The American Dream’s mission is to Educate, Empower, and Engage its audience across the country with business leaders, accomplished entrepreneurs, finance experts, and top producing realtors.

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February 12, 2018

The 20 Most Innovative Companies in Real Estate (or PropTech)

"The Real Estate market is ripe for disruption and has long needed a shake-up, and an injection of investment and technology to drag it into modern times."

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January 25, 2018

Think Realty Radio Show #18 with Guest Brett Crosby

Making money off of debt as an investor. Find out about how this new niche is quickly growing and turning major profits. Featuring guest Brett Crosby of PeerStreet Financial.

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January 23, 2018

PeerStreet vs. LendingHome

Investor Junkie does a comparison by the numbers of PeerStreet vs. LendingHome with PeerStreet coming out on top.

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January 16, 2018

Built In LA's 50 Startups to Watch in 2018

Launched in 2013, Los Angeles-based PeerStreet was founded by real estate attorney Brew Johnson and Brett Crosby, a former Google executive, to empower investors to invest in high-yield real estate loans.

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December 21, 2017

Is Crowdfunding Real Estate Investing Worth It?

PeerStreet only offers senior debt positions. Further, that's what also separates PeerStreet from Lending Club and Prosper because they are collateralized debt instead of unsecured consumer debt.

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December 21, 2017

Technology Drives Changes in CRE Lending Space

“It may not be that commercial is more attractive. It may just be easier. Going directly to borrowers in the residential space has proven harder than many companies expected,” says Brett Crosby, co-founder and chief operating officer of PeerStreet, a marketplace for accredited investors to invest in high-quality private real estate backed loans.

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December 20, 2017

Your Design Will Always Suck, If You Don’t Keep These 5 Things in Mind

Whether you are a designer yourself, or a user who wants to have a greater understanding of the design behind your favorite products, here are some design principles to think about.

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December 5, 2017

PeerStreet’s Brew Johnson Named 2017 HousingWire Vanguard Award Winner

“Brew is one of the brightest minds in FinTech. His passion for his work and deep understanding of the industry is unparalleled,” said Brett Crosby, Co-founder and COO of PeerStreet.

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December 1, 2017

How FinTech Changed Real Estate Investing

Brett Crosby, Co-Founder and COO of PeerStreet, discusses the emergence of FinTech in the lending and real estate debt spaces.

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December 1, 2017

2017 Housing Wire Vanguard: Brew Johnson

As co-founder and CEO, Brew Johnson has played a critical role in driving the direction of PeerStreet, which has seen monthly origination volumes of around $50 million and growth of roughly 900% in YoY revenue, as well as increasing the number of employees from 25 to 75.

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November 27, 2017

Money20/20 Vegas 2017: Brett Crosby, PeerStreet

Brett Crosby talks to Fintech Finance at Money20/20 in Las Vegas about creating a secondary marketplace for real estate debt.

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November 20, 2017

This $700 Billion Industry Has Been Untouched By Tech, Until PeerStreet Changed Everything

One of the biggest markets in the world, worth between one to two trillion dollars annually, has been virtually untouched by technology. Dominated by Wall Street and those perennial names, Fannie and Freddie, real estate investing has long been the domain of a few key players. Until now.

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November 15, 2017

PeerStreet Launches Lender Platform Powered By HouseCanary Data

Real estate crowdfunding platform PeerStreet announced on Monday the launch of its new lender platform.

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October 30, 2017

Rising Startups of Techweek Los Angeles

PeerStreet is named as a Rising Startup Winner at Techweek Los Angeles 2017.

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October 19, 2017

Wall Street Veteran Joins PeerStreet To Lead Capital Markets Team

With his deep Wall Street background, Nees will provide key guidance on multiple and varied capital sources for PeerStreet. Under his leadership, the Capital Markets team will focus on diversifying the company’s capital base, which will further stabilize the robust foundation of the business as it continues to grow rapidly.

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October 19, 2017

Why This Ex-Lehman, Bear Stearns MD Escaped Big Bank Bureaucracy for a Fintech Start-up

“I thought this could be a really good fit – my background and experience put together with someone who had a great business plan at the right time, and I felt that PeerStreet’s was the most compelling,” Louis Nees says.

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October 18, 2017

Marketplace Lenders Breathe New Life in Private Money Mortgage Funding

"There are a lot of assumptions baked into what I'm saying, but the existing market is ripe for transformation," said Crosby, who works for a marketplace lender that primarily funds investors' single-family bridge loans, but would consider funding home mortgages in the future.

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