Proptech Espresso

Mark Hurst
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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.

  1. Joseph Noor - Sophisticated Real Estate Money Saving Strategies For the Average Homeowner

    2 DAYS AGO

    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 estate understanding for a young Joseph? What allowed Jospeh's grandfather, an immigrant hairdresser, to become a land baron in the northeast? Why are the off-the-shelf assessment models used by tax districts inherently flawed? What early entrepreneuri...

    45 min
  2. Eoin Matthews - Building New Financial Solutions for Homeowners

    JAN 2

    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 networking company during the pre-Facebook days? Why was Boston the wrong place to try to raise capital for a consumer technology startup in the early 2000s? What was the difference between Amazon and most other e-commerce companies during the post dot-com day...

    51 min
  3. Shannon Diesch - Making Sure Homeownership is Within Reach for Everyone

    12/19/2024

    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 receiving a lot of "NO's" when pursuing a startup idea? Why is it important to find a champion when introducing a new product to a corporation? How did helping stand up the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) during COVID at Capital One prove to be an inval...

    42 min
  4. Yael Shemer - Building the Usage Economy for Real Estate

    12/09/2024

    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 was extremely important when building an MVP? What did TULU learn early on about customer preferences and did the usage data bear this out? How is the TULU app helping it become a data driven company? Why are brands and retailers partnering with TULU a...

    43 min
  5. Mikus Opelts - Building the Easy Button for Real Estate Visualizations

    11/21/2024

    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 estate agents with tools to help them create visualizations themselves? Why did the first wave of VR tools and solutions lead to bespoke and niche visualization projects for high-end real estate? When brainstorming ideas for his next company, what drov...

    1h 1m
  6. Daniel Heller - Deciphering City Level Real Estate Decisions

    11/06/2024

    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 the US? Why are there so few books on real estate development? What makes local city real estate decisions so difficult to identify and analyze? How does the age/maturity of a city influence the types of real estate decisions being made? What unintention...

    53 min
  7. Lindsay Liu - Building the AI Assistant for Property Management

    10/23/2024

    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? What are some of the challenges of long-term business planning that the quarterly reporting cycle for public companies creates? How does investing in real estate provide more predictability on outcomes vs other alternative investment markets? Why is comm...

    47 min
  8. Alex Fuentes - Reducing Construction Job Site Risk

    10/09/2024

    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 insurance costs ballooned? What can GCs do to mitigate risk and thereby help keep insurance costs in check? Why has water become such a larger driver of construction related insurance costs? What have been the drivers of IoT device adoption on the constr...

    45 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Mark Hurst
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    116
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Proptech Espresso
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    Proptech Espresso

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