What Freaks Out Founders

#001 - Al-Karim Kimjhi: From Building Codes to Source Code


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On this episode of "What Freaks Out Founders", our guest is Al-Karim Kimjhi. Al-Karim is the CEO & Co-Founder at Propra, who are doing some really exciting stuff in the property management software space. Al-Karim comes to us with some extensive entrepreneurial and real estate experience, including developing and operating mid-scale hotel portfolio and managing residential rental properties. He also brings years of management consulting and private equity experience, including at McKinsey & Company where he focused on growth strategy, corporate finance and organization-wide transformations.

Al-Karim speaks to us about his own journey from real estate to development, to consulting, to becoming a startup founder, and talks to us about how he's managed to leverage the skills he learned from the service industry into the startup space. The coles notes - it's all about learning to trust and empower your team in order to get the best results.

Al-Karim is a very intelligent and interesting guy with lots of great insights, so this is an episode you won't want to miss!

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What Freaks Out FoundersBy Shred Capital