Online Program

Breaking Industry Boundaries to Create a Completely New Category of Second Home Ownership

Austin Allison, co-founder and CEO of Pacaso, a service that helps people buy and own second homes, has broken records and changed the second home real estate industry through passion, innovation, and technology. To help make the dream of second home ownership possible for more people, Austin created an entirely new category of second home buying through co-ownership. Austin will be sharing his entrepreneurial journey, from his real estate start in Ohio to the launch and eventual sale of his last startup dotloop, to the incredible growth Pacaso has seen over the last year.

Austin launched Pacaso in October 2020 and by March 2021, he had successfully raised $90M over the course of two rounds of funding and became the fastest U.S. company to reach Unicorn designation (less than 6 months). Now, over a year later, the company is valued at $1.5 billion with total funding at $217 million.