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OFFER ENGINE
Light up the Darkness ...
"When you see the world how it is and know that you can make it better, you have an
obligation to do it. Gozump's mission is to change the way real estate works forever."
-- Charleston Malkemus, Creator & CEO
Gozump Story
Iraqi Brainstorming
Most startup stories begin in a college dorm with a late night session of coding, drinking, and blogging, but mine did not. My story began on the battlefields of Al Qaim during my second deployment to Iraq. I was leading a Scout Sniper Platoon through OPERATION STEEL CURTAIN when I got an email about the real estate market. In late 2005 the market was crashing and I needed to sell my house in San Clemente, CA. Just having gone through what was a very frustrating purchase process I looked into alternative methods of home buying only to find that there were none. Despite all the attempts at Assist 2 Sell or For Sale By Owner services, there were really no powerful solutions. I wanted a simpler and more efficient process, but I found nothing that worked.
Pier-side Visions
After I returned home I continued to study the real estate market learning how it could be better. I was thinking about this one day while sitting on the beach near the San Clemente pier when I had this idea. I saw Gozump and realized that I had to do something. I saw a better way to buy and sell homes making the process ridiculously easy and more transparent. I saw an organization committed to the special needs of the US Military and Veterans, giving back to those that serve us all. That is when I set out to change the way real estate works forever and began developing Gozump's OFFER ENGINE, one of the most sophisticated web applications ever built. The journey has been well worth it knowing that today we are powering the future of real estate one offer at a time.
