TILE showed up for part of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at the New York Stock Exchange this October, and we met some young folks who made us feel bad about sleeping through college.

Adam is just one of them. He was THE Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005, because he figured out how to turn a simple off-campus housing need into a multi-million dollar real estate business.

But… why? Well, we asked him:

Watch the oh-ficial GSEA 2010 recap video here. To see all our GSEA interviews, click here.

Tags: Adam Blake, entrepreneur, GSEA, real estate