Tribe, Sebastian Agren, COO and Co-Founder, with Anton Golub and Demetrios Zamboglou – 27

Sebastian Agren, COO and Co-Founder of Tribe, joins Anton Golub and Dr. Demetrios Zamboglou for a deep dive into real estate tokenization, regulated digital assets, and what it really takes to build a trusted RWA platform in the UAE. Sebastian explains how Tribe was built around one core idea - making real estate ownership more accessible by lowering price barriers, simplifying structure, and creating a real community around investing. He also unpacks why people, trust, and regulation sit at the center of Tribe’s model, and why building a regulated business in a new asset class is far harder than most founders expect. We discuss Dubai’s tokenization opportunity, why real estate remains gold standard for asset-referenced virtual assets, and why distribution is not the same thing as liquidity. Sebastian explains how title-level tokenization works, why old crowdfunding structures fall short when it comes to real secondary trading, and why Tribe chose to build from zero inside the regulatory framework instead of retrofitting an old model later. We also covers VARA, purpose-built compliance, structure design, valuation, secondary-market mechanics, and why 75% of Dubai residents still do not own real estate in the city. We also go beyond product and regulation into Sebastian’s own path - venture building, moving to Dubai, building teams, internal culture, offsites, hiring, and what it means to actually create a “tribe” inside a startup. A practical and forward-looking episode on tokenization, community, trust, regulation, and where real-world assets are heading next in the UAE and beyond.