The Million-Dollar Rooftop: Your Building’s Most Underpriced Asset Is Its Empty Hours.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome landlords are making a million dollars a year on space they never leased.
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Greg Gomer is a Boston-based entrepreneur and Co-founder and CCO at HqO. Since co-founding HqO in 2018, Greg has been at the forefront of the industry's shift from asset management to relationship management, building the case that the landlords who invest in understanding their tenants will outcompete those who don't.
Greg is deeply embedded in the technology community, serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Babson College, mentor at Techstars, and former advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. His work has been published in the WSJ, Fortune, Inc, TechCrunch, NBC, NPR, and The Boston Globe. He holds a BS in Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
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