"I used to brag about how little sleep I got. It felt like a superpower: I could sleep just three or four hours a night, and still operate at a very high level. That helped me get ahead early on. As a teen, I bused tables and sold firewood. By the time I was 19, I bought a house (which was possible because it was the subprime mortgage days). Having a mortgage gave me real responsibility at a young age."
"I dropped out of college to get into real estate. During the financial crisis, I found a niche helping banks sell foreclosures. In 2006 and 2007, I oversaw about 1,000 home sales a year and managed triple that number of properties. I was working 14-hour days, seven days a week. It wasn't a good life, but I was young enough that it didn't matter."
"To help scale, I developed software to track my business's transactions. Other brokerages inquired about what I was using, and soon I had clients paying $2,000 or $5,000 a month to use the software. I was in the right place at the right time with the right product as real estate transactions went digital. By 2012, that software, SkySlope, was doing $12 million in a"
Tyler Smith built SkySlope, a real estate transaction software that grew rapidly and achieved $12 million in revenue by 2012 before selling in 2017 for $80 million. After a health screening showed a biological age of 47—the age his father died—he invested more than $1 million to create a home wellness center and launched Hundred Health to focus on preventive health. Smith's entrepreneurial trajectory began early, working long hours, buying a house at 19, dropping out of college to enter real estate, specializing in foreclosure sales, and developing software to scale operations.
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