Interview with RealPage SVP Jon Pastor

Jon Pastor is the SVP for Consumer Solutions at RealPage, a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry. RealPage was trading publicly at over $10 billion market capitalization before being taken private by Thoma Bravo.

Jon’s entrepreneurial career started when he cofounder RentJungle with previous guest Geng Wang. That company was acquired in 2014 and Jon chose to stay on and lead the acquiring company as President.

Four years later, that company was acquired by RealPage.

In this conversation, Jon and Aaron discuss the lessons from all these acquisitions, the challenges facing the real estate industry, and the incentives that guide successful organizations.

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Topics:
02:05 Founding Rent Jungle
08:00 Transitioning through a series of acquisitions
12:28 Positioning in the real estate industry
15:24 Leading a large-scale organization
20:40 Emotional cycles of an acquisition
23:05 Acquisitions as a means to growth
25:03 Real Page going private
28:00 Personal future plans
28:50 The Leasing Office of the future
30:45 Inter-Operability of Apartment Appliances
31:55 Uses of Real Page
33:00 Real Estate Brand Structure
33:47 Interning at Google
35:47 Jon's actionable challenge

Find Jon on linkedin at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpastor/
Learn more about Real Page:
realpage.com