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Day 2 · Interview 01 of 2210:11 AM · Moscone West

Al-Karim Khimji

Founder, Propra

Property management software for small and mid-size landlords.

The full conversation

8:20 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:49 · Al-Karim's answers, condensed.

Clips

6 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Enterprise prices for 100 units

“I started my career in hotels and actually built my own rental portfolio, so I saw the problem firsthand. And while I was doing that, I would talk to other people with similar size or bigger portfolios, and I would say, …”

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1,000 units. Two people.

“It's great to be a foundation for some of these companies and see them scale. We have a customer, she started off with no units. She has over a thousand units now that she's managing, and it's just her and another team m…”

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"I barely know you, man."

“My co-founder called me one day and said, he's like, I'm quitting my job, we should do this. And I was like, I barely know you, man. And he, and we got along really well, right? right? Like, so well, you know, we connect…”

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Ask it straight: would you buy this?

“It's really easy to surround yourself with people who will say oh yeah that's a great idea go out and test it go out and talk to people ask them ask them very directly don't don't be nice about it I mean very directly sa…”

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His job, my job. Clear roles.

“I think it's about very clearly understanding like what his job is and what my job is and being very clear about that and so we have a great partnership and collaboration and communication around like you know even if I'…”

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"Are we going to make payroll?"

“There's been a bunch of instances where you know we've had like a we had a partner issue um or we had like um a challenge around just like a customer um where you're like this is our biggest customer oh no like what's go…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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