David HirschfeldFounder & CEO, Tekyz Inc. · Founder & CEO at Tekyz Corp | Software Startup Acceleration, AI Experts, Workflow Automation, Board

From Real Estate to Crypto

26 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A commercial real estate broker and LP got a real estate license to cut fees, treating it as a side hobby. In 2016, he dismissed Bitcoin as a scam until Ethereum showed him programmable money and the ability to build applications on blockchain, shifting his focus entirely to crypto.

So I was in commercial real estate. I've always been in commercial real estate as a broker, as an LP, never— it's never been my line of work, but I've always been a hobbyist in it. Got my license to reduce the fees, which are a lot. And then got into crypto in 2016, hating Bitcoin because I thought it was a scam. Later I was introduced to Ethereum, said, oh my gosh, now you've got programmable money and you could build on top of this blockchain. To do basically anything you want.