Entrepreneurs of the month — July 2020

Ştefan Alexandru Băluţ
Cardanti
5 min readJun 9, 2020

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Business has been around ever since people started exchanging goods and services.

Initially, an entrepreneur was defined as someone who built and/or owned buildings and lands. This is still true today, only that now the term has extended its meaning to someone who builds and owns businesses.

Entrepreneurs create jobs, buy real-state for offices or shops and without them, there would be less creativity in the business world.

Workers bring value at specific jobs and tasks, while entrepreneurs and business owners bring value at a macro level.

In other words, entrepreneurs use their keen sense of opportunity to bridge the gap between manufacturing/sales and the final consumer, while keeping both satisfied.

Each month we’re going to look at which are the best entrepreneurs from marketing and real-estate. Most entrepreneurs work 7 days per week, and they hustle for years to achieve their goals while interacting with thousands of people annually, both face to face and online.

When it comes to real estate, we’re going to look at the stars from Million Dollar Listings New York, which is a two-time Emmy nominated American reality television series on Bravo.

The series follows the lives of four luxury real estate agents, Ryan Serhant, Fredrik Eklund, Luis Ortiz and Steve Gold as they represent property owners in New York’s five boroughs.

We’re going to kick-off things with an individual who is actively involved in marketing, and then we’re going to go through the stars of the above-mentioned reality show.

July 2020 Entrepreneurs of the Month

1. Gary Vaynerchuk is a 44-year-old Belarusian-American entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and Internet personality. At age 14, he joined his family’s retail-wine business, which he later transformed into Wine Library. Through e-commerce and pricing strategies, Gary grew the business from $3 million a year to $60 million a year by 2003.

Furthermore, Gary is the chairman of VaynerX, a communications company that holds media properties and a creative and media agency. Gary Vaynerchuk has a net worth of $160 million (2019).

Gary Vaynerchuk is a social media guru as it is hard to find a social media network where he is absent. He is very open to questions from people, and you can find him on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Quora, Snapchat, Medium, skillshare or listen to his podcast on his own website.

2. Ryan Serhant is an American real estate broker, author, and television personality. He currently stars on Bravo’s television series Million Dollar Listing New York and its spin-off Sell it Like Serhant. Ryan runs a New York real estate firm and has a net worth of ~$20 million.

Ryan recently did a pre-launch of his latest book called “Big Money Energy”.

Ryan is also active with the YouTube vlog that he started a couple of years ago. You can see really cool videos like Selling a $9M penthouse on Facetime, view of a $188M mansion, and a tour of a $2B New York property with Casey Neistat.

Besides his TV shows, you can find Ryan on his own website, or you can follow or connect with him on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook.

3. Fredrik Eklund is a Swedish New York City-based real estate broker, a Bravo TV reality star, a former IT entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and the author of The Sell. Fredrik has closed over $5 billion in residential real estate. Fredrik is the founder of Eklund Stockholm New York, Scandinavia’s most high-end residential real estate brokerage with 50 employees and $1 billion in closed sales in 2014. He is an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York. You can follow Fredrik to get more insights on his day-to-day activity on LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

4. Steve Gold is a 35-year-old real estate broker and reality star. With a net worth of $10 million, Steve Gold is another star from the Million Dollar Listing New York reality show. He’s been in the real estate business for almost 10 years. Going into adulthood Steve met a successful broker, took up an online course and later started working.

Gold’s main focus is selling luxury properties located in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He has played a significant role in several developments in the Flatiron, Greenwich Village, SoHo, the West Village, and The Upper West Side. Steve Gold is very present on social media, as you can get in touch with him and his work on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.

5. Tyler Whitman is one of Million Dollar Listing New York’s newest cast members. After a bad experience with a broker, while finding his first home in New York, he unleashed his passion for real estate. Through his company called Triplemint, he sold more than 60 properties and his current listings range from $1.2 million to $2.5 million. The 33-year-old entrepreneur can be found on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or you can check out his company’s website, Triplemint.com.

The first edition of the ‘Entrepreneurs of the Month’ series is packed with high profile real estate and marketing entrepreneurs and we hope that you enjoyed reading. If you have any suggestions, or you have other entrepreneurs in your mind who should make the list, drop us an email at hello@cardanti.com.

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