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Proptech Espresso

Proptech Espresso

By: Mark Hurst
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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.© 2026 Proptech Espresso Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Dillon Okner - Streamlining Retail & Franchise Expansion
    Jul 16 2026

    How has studying graphic design influenced Dillon's career? What led Dillon to land his initial role working in an Apple retail store? How was Dillon able to make the jump to working in Apple's retail development group? What family ties to real estate did Dillon have? Which Microsoft product was Apple using to run its construction projects in the early days of Dillon's career? How is the build process different between an Apple retail store in a mall and one of Apple's flagship stores? Why did Dillon decide to leave Apple and head over to Tesla? How quick were the build times for Tesla's showrooms? How did the Apple Genius Bar influence Tesla's retail showrooms? What was the inspiration for SiteRise? Why did Dillon build SiteRise as a non-user license solution? How is AI being used to make the development process more efficient? What areas of retail and retail adjacent real estate are seeing growth today? Why is retail clustering taking off at the moment? Why is reporting increasingly important for SiteRise?

    Dillon Okner - CEO and founder of SiteRise, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss why customer led development has been the key to SiteRise's success.

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    30 mins
  • Josephine Bromley - Making Profitable Decarbonization Decisions
    Jul 2 2026

    Should we view proptech as how humans transform physical space into something much more valuable and relevant than just the physical space? Why should building owners consider looking at proptech investment across their whole tech stack, rather than focusing only on individual, siloed solutions? How did Josephine use linguistics as a launching point to get into technology localization? What inspired Josephine to work in a startup after starting her career at Google? What was attractive about the built environment compared to other industries Josephine had worked in? How did Josephine's work around sustainability lead her to join the Carbon13 incubator program? Why has accurate, portfolio-wide building energy modeling become a critical need for asset owners? How has MapMortar automated the labor-intensive building energy modeling process? Why is MapMortar looking to engage with banks and utility providers?

    Josephine Bromley - COO & co-founder of MapMortar, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how her Google onbcaoarding experience instilled a deep sense of personal ownership that she continues to lean on many companies.

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    52 mins
  • Ryan Buckley - Providing the intelligence layer for the built world
    Jun 4 2026

    What was Ryan's first academic love in high school? What opportunity did Ryan uncover by responding to a Craigslist advertisement? Why did Ryan decide to return to his original path after an enjoyable stint in consulting? What attribute of MIT culture appealed to Ryan and convinced him to apply to Sloan for an MBA? What part-time job did Ryan land at MIT that gave him special insight into the campus's eccentricities? How did Ryan end up founding a screen writing software business? How did Ryan pivot this failed idea into a lucrative marketplace business? What hard lesson about unit economics did Ryan learn during this period? How did Ryan connect the dots between data, B2B, and climate policy to start a new tech business? What did Ryan admire about Stripe that he applied to the permit data space with Shovels? Why is collecting and aggregating local building permit data so challenging? What insights has Shovels uncovered around permit activity and different types of climate disasters? What is the permit cloud that Shovel's is uncovering that indicates early signal about a larger infrastructure project? How is Shovels providing insight into available trade resources for intensive projects such as data centers?

    Ryan Buckley - CEO and co-founder of Shovels, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how his early childhood interest in roller hockey exposed him to the parking lots of seminal internet titans like Netscape and Silicon Graphics.

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    51 mins
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