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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg at Semafor World Economy
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May 1, 2026
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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg at Semafor World Economy
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Semafor World Economy Summit 2026
· 2026
Vishal Garg
(CEO, Better.com, guest)
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Executive Summary
Better.com is leveraging tokenization to allow homebuyers to pledge assets like Bitcoin, USDC, and eventually stocks for down payments, aiming to unlock trillions in non-cash assets and address the affordability crisis.
The company is aggressively deploying AI, which has reduced its mortgage manufacturing costs by 80% and created an AI agent ('Betsy') that has reached feature parity with the majority of human loan officers.
AI is poised to fundamentally disrupt the mortgage industry by automating nearly all manual processing tasks, shifting the remaining human roles towards high-empathy client consultation.
The speaker predicts an imminent U.S.
recession, viewing it as an opportune time for consumers to buy homes before interest rates potentially fall and competition intensifies.
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