Ben Kinney is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, author, real estate agent, brokerage owner, and co-founder of PLACE, Inc. that started in Bellingham, Washington and now operates across the USA, Canada, and the U.K . He is listed in The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends' top 1,000 agents for 2011-2022. He was the top ranked agent in Washington state in transactional volume for the years 2012-2021.Kinney is the founder of Ben Kinney Companies commonly referred to as "BKCO" which owns and operates the sales divisions, brokerages, training companies, and the technology firms including NVNTD, Blueroof360, Activerain, Automabots, Brivity, and Blossor.In 2013, NVNTD purchased Big Fresh Media and Tech Help. In 2015 BKCO purchased KWKLY and Activerain from the Zillow Group. In 2017 BKCO acquired the Salt Lake City technology company Blueroof360 and in August, 2017 they also acquired the San Diego based AI company, Automabots.In 2019, Kinney along with Chris Suarez co-founded the real estate technology platform, Place. In 2021 Goldman Sachs along with 3L invested 100 million dollars into Place at over a Billion dollar valuation.