Proptech Espresso
Learn everything you need to about Proptech from the real estate professionals, entrepreneurs, and visionaries at the forefront of this evolution. Proptech encompasses the wider digital transformation of real estate as innovators reimagine, reinvent, and rebuild the real estate industry. It considers both the technological and mentality change of the real estate industry, and its consumers to our attitudes, movements and transactions involving the built environment. Are you ready? Join the cutting edge of the Proptech movement on Proptech Espresso.
Episodes
116 episodes
Joseph Noor - Sophisticated Real Estate Money Saving Strategies For the Average Homeowner
Did Mark Andreessen's famous essay about software eating the world lead to the term Proptech being coined? How did having family members who were real estate investors, developers, and property tax collectors establish a deep foundation of real...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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Eoin Matthews - Building New Financial Solutions for Homeowners
When understanding the definition of proptech, why does it make sense to look at who the definition is serving? How did a mechanical engineering student make their way to the Boston tech startup scene? What was it like building a social network...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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51:22
Shannon Diesch - Making Sure Homeownership is Within Reach for Everyone
Does exposure to family entrepreneurship at an early age impact the likelihood of pursuing a startup later in life How extensively is fractional ownership touching the different real estate asset classes? Why is it important to get experience r...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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41:41
Yael Shemer - Building the Usage Economy for Real Estate
How did an Environmental Sciences degree lead to a career in sustainability? How did attending DesignX at MIT sow the seeds for TULU? Why did Yael become a minimalist? Where did the name TULU originate? Why did TULU believe fast experimentation...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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Mikus Opelts - Building the Easy Button for Real Estate Visualizations
What was it like to be involved with the European proptech scene as it started to gain momentum and formalize into a tech space? How did a Latvian trait of resourcefulness continually re-enforced by his grandfather inspire Mikus to provide real...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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Daniel Heller - Deciphering City Level Real Estate Decisions
How did an investigation into 3D printing houses spark an interest in real estate? On ICON's first marketing flyers, what price did they believe they would be able to sell their 3D printed homes for? Why does Germany build denser housing than t...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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Lindsay Liu - Building the AI Assistant for Property Management
How did an early career in consulting shape an understanding of the need to deliver both on time and at the highest level of quality? Why is it important for entrepreneurs to be able to step into the shoes of their customers every single day? W...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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Alex Fuentes - Reducing Construction Job Site Risk
Does construction tech end once occupancy of a building happens? Why is it important to be able to professionally reinvent yourself? What was the draw to the clean tech space after spending time in the aerospace industry? Why has construction i...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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Bryce Wuori - Leading the Paving Revolution
What was it like growing up as part of a multi-generational family construction business? How did being immersed in the family construction business provide unique benefits while working on Bryce's master degree in college? Why were the ineffic...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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Kevin Albert - Delivering A Bold New Way To Build
Is robotics the ultimate tool for giving humans superpower capabilities? Why are snake robots Kevin's nemesis? What prompted Kevin to learn to code? Why is it transformational to bring robots out of the lab/factory and into everyday human envir...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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Justin Schwaiger - Making Offsite Construction A Practical Reality
Why is there so much bespoke design happening with real estate development projects? What is meant by design productization? Why have some companies championed vertically integrated construction? What was Katerra's business model and secret sau...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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John Fay - Productizing Construction
Why can long tenures in industries stifle innovation? How did John and his wife end up in Mountain View, California? What were some of the memorable dates that John took his wife on? Why was it beneficial to write business plans on any idea tha...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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Skye Laudari - Helping Achieve Homeownership Sooner
Which emerging trend caused Skye not to pursue a degree in architecture? What was it like building a startup within Oracle? How did personal experience draw Skye into the proptech space? What realization around purchasing a home was the inspira...
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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Kyle Waldrep - Building a Single Source of Truth for CRE Asset Management
Despite many advances in proptech, has it also regressed in certain senses? Why has the technology adoption chasm been so big to cross in proptech? Can proptech solutions hope to introduce change management to companies that still solely rely o...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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44:18
Irina Constantin - Streamlining Real Estate Developer Sales Processes
Is the right way to think about proptech to frame it in terms of how humans live, work, and function in our communities? What is the proptech scene like in Romania? Why were real estate developers experiencing so many issues in their sales proc...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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40:10
Paul Kromidas - Making Vacation Home Ownership Make Sense
Why has proptech evolved from initially innovating and disrupting the four walls of a physical asset to now primarily encompassing secondary industries such as financing and servicing which are asset light? Does ESG fall under the big umbrella ...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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Chet Kittleson - Simplifying Cross-Border Buying
Why are many of the most successful real estate agents true entrepreneurs at heart? How is Redfin able to focus on solving the core issues of the real estate agent and in turn solve problems for the homebuying consumer? What has been the driver...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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Brandon Peterson - Unlocking the Built World
Why does coming to terms with the fact that you won't lose everything by becoming an entrepreneur help founders cross a mental threshold for diving into a new venture? How did the term 'burn it to the ground' directly apply to the entrepreneuri...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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Kathleen Egan - Simplifying Sustainability in the Built World
Why is it important to include supply chain in the proptech tent? How do asset lifecycles contribute to the complexity of the real estate industry? In what ways did a class in entrepreneurial marketing at Harvard Business School cause a reset o...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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Eric Law - Reclaiming Construction Wood Waste With Robots
What macro factors motivated Eric's initial decision to enter the construction field right out of college? Why is it so difficult to drive change within the construction industry? Is technology adoption within the commercial construction sector...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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Brent Wadas - Revolutionizing Construction with Robotics
How are many investors today differentiating proptech and construction tech? Is entrepreneurship genetic or learned? Why are the siloed dynamics typically involved in construction processes? What are the realities and challenges that residentia...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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Robin Rivaton - Delivering Real Estate Property Data At Scale
How are smart cities and proptech-related terms? Which other investing domains typically fall under smart cities? What are all the different real estate asset classes that airports manage as part of their operations? How do the sizes of typical...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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Aleks Gampel - Empowering Others to Build a Better Physical World
What was it like to work at WeWork during its hypergrowth phase? Which businesses outside of the WeWork mothership were Aleks involved with? What did Aleks learn about the right cost of capital for different business models while at WeWork? Why...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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Sean Roberts - Redesigning Homebuilding To Solve Today's Challenges
How do investors in businesses fundamentally differ from operators of businesses? What is intellectually compelling about building and running a business that has not been done before? Are there unique challenges for high-growth proptech busine...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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Troy Harvey - The Toolkit for Building Autonomy
Are we in the early days of proptech or have we moved into a period of real estate technology maturity? Why has it taken so long for deeper technology solutions to be introduced into proptech? What are the parallels between automobile manufactu...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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