Episode 03: Thad Wong
“You don’t know who I am, do you? I probably sang ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ to you when you were a little boy.”
About Thad
Thad Wong is the co-founder of @properties, the largest residential real estate brokerage firm in Illinois and one of the 11 largest brokerage firms in the U.S. by sales volume. Today, @properties has over $9 billion in annual sales and 30 offices in the city of Chicago, surrounding suburbs, Southwest Michigan, Northwest Indiana, and Southeast Wisconsin.
Thad’s awards include Inman Innovator of the Year recipient; the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Midwest; Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500/5000” list; inclusion on Crain’s Chicago Business’ “Fast Fifty,” “40 Under 40,” and “Largest Privately Held Companies” lists; Inman News’ “100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders”; induction in the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame; the Impact Award from the Lincoln Park Builders Club; and the Damen Award from the Loyola University of Chicago School of Continuing and Professional Studies.