Colin Wiel

Colin Wiel

Chairman at Mynd

TED Attendee
Oakland, California, United States
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About Colin

I am a…

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Inventor, Investor, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

Bio

Colin Wiel is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and chairman Mynd, a tech enabled platform for investing in single-family rentals, named the fastest growing company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2020. He has co-founded four other companies, including Waypoint Homes, a pioneer of single-family rental, which raised over $3.5 billion, bought over17,000 homes, and went public on the NYSE, and Wildlife Works Carbon, the global leader in forest conservation through REDD carbon credits.Colin has multiple patents in artificial intelligence, has earned a spot on the Goldman Sachs Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs, and was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He serves on the boards of Pacaso and Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp.

I'm passionate about

Rainforest conservation, technology, social change, real estate investing

An idea worth spreading

High bandwidth global connectivity and collaboration tools like Slack and Google Hangouts are finally at a level that remote workers can be fully connected. We are at a tipping point in remote working. The world finally is flat, and most people are not aware of the magnitude of pending impact.

Areas of expertise

AI, Angel investing, genomics, Rainforest Conservation, REAL ESTATE

Things you might not know

Building technology to mimic human decision making