Biggerpockets
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BiggerPockets provides real estate investing tools, including property analysis calculators and property management software, along with a network of investor-friendly agents and vetted service professionals. It also offers educational content through articles, podcasts, videos, and guides, plus a community forum and tiered membership plans for real estate investors.
Also known as Bigger Pockets Β· BiggerPockets LLC Β· BP
Investors Β· 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026BiggerPockets operates an online platform for real estate investors that combines community, education, and software tools. Its website hosts discussion forums organized by topic and geography β covering areas such as house hacking, BRRRR, commercial real estate, multifamily, wholesaling, rehabbing and house flipping, short-term and medium-term rentals, landlording and tenant screening, tax and legal questions, syndications, and classifieds β as well as guides, articles, and calculators. The company states it serves a community of over 3,000,000 members and describes its objective as helping ordinary people build wealth through real estate, with a stated goal of assisting one million members in building one million dollars in wealth.
Alongside the community, BiggerPockets publishes media and books. The BiggerPockets Podcast was launched early in the company's history and hosted for its first five years by founder Joshua Dorkin, and the company runs a publishing arm and online bookstore selling real estate investing titles in paperback, ebook, audiobook, and bundled "ultimate" formats with supplementary bonus content. It also runs an in-person conference, BPCON, and an agent marketplace. Internal teams span data and analytics, events, engineering, marketplace, media, finance, operations, and business intelligence, supported by a customer support organization and a volunteer moderator team drawn from the member base.
Founding story
Joshua Dorkin worked as a stock trader, then in entertainment in New York and Los Angeles, obtained a real estate license, and later became a teacher. Encouraged by his brother to look at investment properties, he bought several small apartment units far from his home in California. Frustrated by the difficulty of finding trustworthy landlording advice online, he founded BiggerPockets, which began as a hobby website.
Business model
BiggerPockets offers free account registration for access to community features and content, with paid tiered membership (including a Pro tier) that unlocks guides, market analysis, property analysis calculators, and exclusive events. Additional lines include book publishing and direct-to-consumer book sales through its own store, conferences, and marketplaces connecting members with agents and service professionals.
Revenue sources indicated by the sources include paid membership upgrades (BiggerPockets Pro), sales of books through the BiggerPockets Bookstore, events such as BPCON, and marketplace/agent-sales activity.
Traction
The company reports a community of more than 3,000,000 members. Its publishing arm has released 15 books under Dorkin's tenure as publisher, several described as leading titles in their categories.
Latest developments
In August 2024 BiggerPockets was reported to have received a majority investment from The Chernin Group, intended to support the launch of new tools including Market Finder and Deal Finder.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Described in the sources as a prominent real estate education platform and characterized by its founder's site as the largest online real estate network, with a podcast described there as among the top 150 podcasts globally and top 10-15 in business.
Combines a large peer community and moderated forums with proprietary investing calculators, published books, podcasts, events, and vetted agent/service-professional marketplaces in a single membership platform.
Technology
The platform provides web-based property analysis calculators, market and deal discovery tools (reported as Market Finder and Deal Finder), member profiles with deal records, and forum software with topic, location, and follow-based filtering.
Go-to-market
Acquisition relies on free content and free account sign-up (forums, articles, guides, videos), a podcast and YouTube presence, book publishing, and live events, converting members into paid Pro subscriptions and marketplace transactions.
Individual real estate investors across experience levels β from newcomers and first-time buyers to experienced landlords, flippers, syndicators, and passive investors β plus real estate professionals such as agents, lenders, and contractors.
Geography
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, per third-party company data; forum activity is organized primarily around U.S. states and cities with some Canadian provinces (Alberta, British Columbia). Bookstore shipments are limited to the United States.
History
Dorkin bootstrapped and led BiggerPockets as CEO for roughly 14 years, reportedly working around 100-hour weeks for the first six years before beginning to build a team β starting with Brandon Turner, who became host of the BiggerPockets Podcast. Dorkin recapitalized the business with a private equity partner and stepped down from day-to-day operations to join the company's board in November 2018, while continuing to appear occasionally on the podcast. In August 2024, The Chernin Group was reported to have taken a majority stake of over 50% of the company.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 4
launches, deals, and filingsBiggerPockets received a majority investment from The Chernin Group, which now owns over 50% of the company; proceeds support new tools such as Market Finder and Deal Finder.
Joshua Dorkin, BiggerPockets founder and board member, launched a separate long-form interview podcast; it went on hiatus in March 2020 and ended in August 2022.
BiggerPockets' customer support team leader received the 2019 Customer Service Leader of the Year (Stevie Awards); prior recognitions include 2018 Female Entrepreneur of the Year for Women in Business (Stevie Awards) and 2018 Service Person of the Year (National Customer Service Association).
After bootstrapping and running BiggerPockets as CEO for about 14 years, Dorkin recapitalized the business with a private equity partner and moved to the company's board.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
- About Us | BiggerPocketsbiggerpockets.com Β· web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Biggerpockets do?
- BiggerPockets is a real estate investing education platform with a member community, podcasts, tools, and books.
- Who are Biggerpockets's investors?
- Biggerpockets's investors include The Chernin Group (TCG Crypto).