Austin Allison

Austin Allison is a visionary leader in tech and real estate. Obsessed with efficiency and building things outside the box, Allison has utilized his more than 20 years of experience in real estate to create new systems, greater efficiencies, and future-thinking models. In October 2020 he founded Pacaso and within six months it became the fastest company to ever reach unicorn status in the U.S. Pacaso’s category-creating co-ownership model empowers a new, more diverse and inclusionary sphere of second home buyers to own a share of a second home and experience true real estate ownership.

Prior to founding Pacaso, Allison was co-founder and CEO of dotloop, a breakthrough proptech company that created software to seamlessly manage traditionally cumbersome and time-intensive real estate transactions. Today, dotloop is used by 9,000+ brokerage teams, nearly a half a million agents, and is used in 50% of U.S. real estate transactions.

Zillow acquired dotloop in 2015, and Austin continued to run dotloop as a Zillow executive until 2018. Austin began selling real estate at the age of 18 and worked in residential and commercial real estate for a decade prior to launching and growing groundbreaking tech-focused companies.

Austin is a guest columnist for Inc.com has shared insightful leadership thoughts on remote work, maintaining culture, importance of offsites/human connection, mental health and navigating economic challenges.