Shane Neman is a ser­i­al entre­pre­neur, ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist, and real estate devel­op­er. After drop­ping out of NYU Med­ical School and fail­ing at his first start­up dur­ing the tech-bub­ble bust of the ear­ly 2000s, Neman start­ed over. He built his sec­ond ven­ture, Joon­Bug, into a mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar dig­i­tal events pow­er­house that thor­ough­ly dis­rupt­ed the out­dat­ed events and hos­pi­tal­i­ty indus­try. He sub­se­quent­ly found­ed a suc­cess­ful SaaS busi­ness, EZ Tex­ting, the largest busi­ness SMS soft­ware plat­form in the Unit­ed States. Now, Neman is a pro­lif­ic backer of star­tups and runs a sub­stan­tial real estate port­fo­lio with prop­er­ties in major met­ro­pol­i­tan areas across the country.Although a life­long New York­er at heart, after thir­ty-eight years Neman moved to South Flori­da, where he cur­rent­ly resides with his wife and kids