What Nobody Tells You About Building From Scratch in Multifamily │ Bobbi Steward, CEO & Co-Founder of Revyse

Bobbi Steward saw multifamily vendor management was broken and decided to fix it. Bobbi is Co-Founder & CEO of Revyse, the vendor management platform helping operators bring clarity to contracts, compliance, and spend. Before Revyse, Bobbi came up through proptech before leading marketing and customer experience at a top-15 multifamily operator. It was on the operator side where she saw how fragmented vendor management really was: property management companies working with thousands of vendors and no single source of truth.Two weeks after her daughter was born, a planned career break lasted 48 hours before she decided to build the solution herself.Jacob Kosior and Bobbi get into what that journey actually looked like. They talk about crossing from the vendor side to the operator side and realizing you only understood half the picture, teaching yourself corporate accounting from YouTube, the myth that founders have some intrinsic knowledge the rest of us don't, and the leadership lesson Bobbi carries from making the same mistake more than once: make yourself sustainable.In this episode:01:12 — Get to Know Bobbi: This or That rapid fire02:06 — From Vendor to Operator: What led Bobbi from proptech to leading marketing at a top-ten operator06:19 — Building Revyse: The vendor management problem and the 48-hour career break that led to starting a company08:51 — The Founder Myth: Hubris, perseverance, YouTube accounting, and why it's really about relationships10:29 — Making Yourself Sustainable: The leadership mistake Bobbi kept repeating and the mantra that came from it14:28 — AI in Work and Life: Using ChatGPT as an executive coach, for trip planning, and moreNew episodes twice a month. Follow the show so you never miss one. In Good Company is a multifamily podcast by EliseAI.🔗 Learn more: https://meet.eliseai.com/4chJSFs