Bio

Hey y'all! 👋👋👋 My name is Stephen, and I love working for tech startups. It all started when I was hired as the first employee at Knock.com in 2016, after my nearly 2 year run with Redfin. At Knock, I eventually grew to be the VP of Sales (Real Estate) on the senior leadership team (reporting to either CEO or COO for most of my tenure there). I had the amazing experience of creating + pitching the C-level + building and executing the GTM plan for our core product, building out and managing a lot of our ops processes, building multiple inside and outside sales teams, and owning everything related to sales and account management (client facing). Over the years I built high powered licensed real estate brokerage sales and mortgage sales teams of 30+ people across 16+ states and 75+ markets and played key roles in biz dev and partnerships as we aimed to scale our solution by powering the every day agents we worked with across the US. Twice in my tenure there I used deep consumer insights and research to convince the C-level and board to pivot the company: first, from a list-guarantee to a buy-before-you-sell model, and then again, from a brokerage powered model to a mortgage powered model in 2019. Post-Knock, I went out to the folks at Gravy.co to help advise them on their app buildout as it related to first-time homebuyers. I was in charge of sales and bizdev there, helping to launch their co-branded product for agents and lenders. It was a fun ride, but now I’m onto my next adventure. For now, I’m starting my own real estate team aimed at helping first-time homebuyers in the greater Atlanta area with my wife, called Freud & Berg. ☕ If you made it this far and found this ''about me'' interesting, let's grab some virtual coffee! ☕ --- Licensed Real Estate Broker in Georgia (352324) and South Carolina (106135). Licensed Mortgage Loan Originator in GA (NMLS 1928070).