Episodes: 58
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
Publicly listed emails
mike@mikedp.com
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Mike DelPrete - Host of “Context with Mike DelPrete” who conducts conversations with industry leaders about the businesses and technologies changing real estate, and researches lending/search-to-sale dynamics via ...
Ryan Dibble - Mortgage Attach Rates/power-buyer Model; Why “holy Grail” Business Concepts Work Differently In Practice; Ecosystem Retention.
Carey Armstrong - Experience Across Zillow And Building A Mortgage Company; Mapping The Mortgage/real-estate “landscape” And What Drives Confidence/close Rates.
Holy Grail 05: The Carpenter’s Cup
September 27, 2026
On this episode I chat with Luke Babich, CEO of Clever Real Estate, a referral platform that matches buyers and sellers with agents. Clever has grown profitably, partly by integrating brokerage, title, and mortgage -- the Holy Grail is working.Luke's diagnosis of real estate is simple: too many leads and too many agents. And because people only move once a decade, every customer is a new customer.His answer is what he calls the ABCs: Agent Behavior Change. In his view, almost all the ente...
Holy Grail 04: A Day with Rocket
June 24, 2026
I hit the road and spend a day with Rocket in Detroit. I want to walk the floors and see the biggest company chasing the Holy Grail for myself.I went in skeptical. Redfin's posting a 50% attach rate since the acquisition and I didn't believe it — they were at 27% before. How? Turns out the magic is that the loan officers and the agents just like each other. Bundles work when the partners want them to.But loan servicing is the real learning. I'll be honest, I thought servicing was ...
Holy Grail 03: The Power Buyer Clue
April 26, 2026
I begin by tracking the number of mortgage loan originators at the big players — which tells me who's really investing in the search for the Grail. Then I sit down with Ryan Dibble, one of the Flyhomes co-founders. Flyhomes is a power buyer that stumbled on the Holy Grail with mortgage attach rates around 80%, and then pivoted away from it. Turns out finding the Holy Grail and making the Holy Grail business work are two very different things. One insight: an object in motion stays in moti...
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The publicly listed email for Context with Mike DelPrete: mike@mikedp.com.
Podseeker estimates Context with Mike DelPrete reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
Context with Mike DelPrete typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior leaders with hands-on operating experience in real estate/mortgage tech (e.g., co-founders or executives from major proptech/real estate portals and lending platforms). Common among recent guests: co-founded or led mortgage/real-estate tech companies; held executive roles at major real estate/mortgage-related technology firms; built or scaled lending products and/or marketplaces. Recent guests include Ryan Dibble and Carey Armstrong.
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