About Ryan Serhant
Ryan Serhant - Biography
Ryan Serhant is an American real‑estate broker, entrepreneur, media producer and television personality who founded the brokerage SERHANT. and previously led the Serhant Team at Nest Seekers International. He rose to public prominence as a star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and later as star/producer of Netflix’s Owning Manhattan, and has authored books and hosted podcasts about sales and entrepreneurship.
Ryan Matthew Serhant was born July 2, 1984, and began his early career pursuing acting and occasional hand modeling before moving into real estate in 2008 as a way to stabilize income while pursuing entertainment work. His first day in real estate coincided with the 2008 financial crisis; he has recounted starting in the business to pay rent and gradually building skills and listings by cold calls, persistence and hustle. Serhant joined Nest Seekers International and over about a decade rose to executive leadership there, creating the Serhant Team and expanding into a bi‑coastal operation that focused on luxury listings and new developments. Under his leadership the team became one of New York’s top sales teams, selling new developments across multiple markets and achieving multi‑billion‑dollar cumulative sales during that period. In September 2020 Serhant launched SERHANT., a next‑generation, content‑driven real‑estate brokerage and media company built around a content-to-commerce model with in‑house production capabilities and an innovation platform; under his leadership the firm expanded across U.S. markets, grew to many hundreds of agents and employees, and received industry recognition such as Inman’s Most Innovative Brokerage award in 2025 according to his official bio.
Learn from Ryan when you're...
- Launching a business in uncertain markets
- Overcoming early career struggles
- Mastering high-stakes sales
- Integrating technology into traditional industries
- Building and leading high-performing teams
- Leveraging media and content for customer acquisition
- Developing sales training programs
- Transitioning from unrelated fields into entrepreneurship
What can you ask about Ryan Serhant's work?
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Best for these goals
- ✓Luxury Real Estate Brokerage
- ✓Entrepreneurship And Business Scaling
- ✓Sales And Negotiation
- ✓Innovation In Real Estate Technology
Core frameworks
- •Energy is currency - Enter every interaction radiating high energy and confidence as your first sales tool.
- •Structure your time like your most valuable listing - Organize your schedule into prioritized buckets for business, personal, and family.
- •Eat the frog first - Tackle your hardest professional task at the start of the day after a grueling morning workout.
- •Luxury Real Estate Brokerage
Sample questions
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