# $5B Real Estate Mogul Reveals The Price of Success | Ep. 411 with Mauricio Umansky Founder and CEO of The Agency

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Podcast: [Founder's Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906)
Published: 2026-06-24T14:37:50+00:00
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## Resource

Daniel Robbins sits down with Mauricio Umansky to unpack the full price of success: from delivering pizzas at 16 to closing more than $5 billion in sales, selling the Playboy Mansion, and building The Agency into a global luxury real estate brand. Mauricio opens up about reality TV, losing privacy, the burden it placed on his children, and why he still believes the exposure helped him build. He also breaks down the chaos in real estate, his criticism of the National Association of Realtors, the launch of the American Real Estate Association, and why AI could reshape the future of agents, transactions, and the entire industry.

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