Scaling up.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/scaling-up/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:06] My guest today is Brian Gaudio, founder of Module Housing. While working on a documentary about the housing crisis in South America, Brian, then just a college senior, saw the broader possibility of modular pay-as-you-go design. As opposed to simply designing yet another prototype for affordable housing, he decided to create a startup around it. And so Module focuses on perfect little housing solutions that meet zero-energy standards, and are smaller and flexible, so that they can grow with a family's needs.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:53] Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Brian on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing, and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:9] Hi, Brian. Thanks for joining me today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Brian Gaudio:</strong> [00:01:24] Hi Eve, thanks for having me.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:29] It's a pleasure. So, I've been watching you build your company, Module, for a few years now, and I'm really excited to talk to you about it. You've decided to focus your life's work on designing modular housing, affordable-by-design housing. And that was a pretty bold move straight out of school. So, what problem are you trying to solve?</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Brian:</strong> [00:01:47] It is a big problem. And it's a problem that, in school I was always, you know, in studios I would always be thinking about. It was something that was rattling in the back of my head, was how do we bring good design