Professional Profile: David Snider - 2016

Education: Duke University, Harvard Business School

What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Compass is a technology-driven real estate platform with offices in Boston, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and Washington, DC. Compass provides comprehensive brokerage services, combining exceptional agents with best-in-class technology to make the process of buying, selling, or renting, intelligent and seamless. We plan to continue developing the industry’s most sophisticated tools to help agents and their clients make smarter real estate decisions. 

Favorite novel: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Favorite film: Thomas Crown Affair

Keys to success: Listening carefully to understand the needs and goals of others; persistence

If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Writer or journalist. I love gathering lots information on complex topics and trying to distill down the key insights.