Retail | How to Scale Store Expansion with the Construction Tech Behind Apple & Tesla, With...
The discussion centers on the complexities of scaling retail store rollouts and introduces Siterise, a construction‑tech platform born from Dylan Oner’s experience at Apple and Tesla. Oner explains that fragmented spreadsheets, inconsistent naming, and siloed teams erode visibility, causing schedule slips and budget overruns. A single source of truth, early procurement, and bulk ordering are presented as antidotes to labor shortages and rising material costs. He stresses that “visibility brings accountability,” citing Tesla’s internal tool—built while the company was still a handful of showrooms—as a prototype that still drives its expansions. Unlike niche solutions such as Procore or generic task managers like Asana, Siterise unifies real‑estate, design, construction, and operations in one workflow. Adopting such an integrated platform can shave weeks off opening timelines, improve ROI, and generate clean, AI‑ready data for investors, insurers, and other stakeholders, fundamentally reshaping the economics of brick‑and‑mortar growth.
Rentals | How to Run Residential Maintenance Operations at Scale, with Lula Co-Founder Will...
The podcast spotlights Lula’s effort to modernize residential maintenance, a function that accounts for roughly a third of property‑management expenses yet still runs on texts, emails and spreadsheets. Co‑founder Will Parish explains how Lula transformed a B2C home‑repair app into...
Don Tepman AKA StripMallGuy on Proptech's Biggest Adoption Obstacle & Going From AI Skeptic To...
The Tangent episode spotlights AI’s growing role in commercial real estate, featuring Don Tepman—known as “Strip Mall Guy”—who transitioned from AI skeptic to advocate after deploying Claude. The conversation frames AI adoption as a double‑edged sword: while 66% of CRE...
AI, Relationships & the Future of CRE | Live From the Real Estate Gala Ft. ButterflyMX, Hoya...
The fourth annual Real Estate Gala in Hudson Yards served as a showcase for how artificial intelligence is reshaping commercial real‑estate (CRE) operations. Hosts Don Tepman and Bob Knackl gathered developers, brokers, investors, and prop‑tech founders to discuss AI’s role...
Your Façade Is Your Biggest Blind Spot. This Robot Uncovers It, with Verobotics CEO & Co-Founder...
In this Tangent episode, Ido Genosar, CEO and co‑founder of Verobotics, explains how his company is building the first operating system for building facades. The robot traverses a structure’s exterior, performing cleaning, inspection, and predictive‑maintenance while streaming high‑resolution data to...
Making Existing Buildings Efficient Again, with OTI CEO Brian Turner - Tangent 💚 Proptech
The Tangent podcast featured OTI CEO Brian Turner discussing how the real estate sector can revive existing building stock through systematic retrofits. Turner explained OTI’s evolution from a traditional controls contractor to a full‑stack system integrator that treats a building...
Building One of NYC’s Leading Property Management Firms From Zero to Exit, with Choice NY...
Michael Feldman co‑founded Choice New York Companies, scaling the firm from zero to roughly $27 million in revenue and $5.1 million EBITDA before its 2021 sale to Associa Corp. The business provided property management, staffing, and brokerage services to medium‑ and large‑scale...
The Most Curious Things Happening in Multifamily Innovation, with Sage Ventures' Moshe Crane
In this episode, host Edward Cohen and co‑host Zach Ahrens sit down with Moshe Crane, VP of Sage Ventures and author of the Curious Deal newsletter, to dissect the current state of multifamily real estate. Moshe explains how nuanced market...
Can an AI PMS Run Your Short-Term Rental Portfolio?, With Boom Co-Founder & CEO Shahar Goldboim...
The episode of Tangent PropTech features Shahar Goldboim, co‑founder and CEO of Boom, discussing how an AI‑powered property‑management system can run a fragmented short‑term‑rental portfolio. Goldboim explains that vacation‑rental assets are scattered across different locations, sizes and furnishings, making consistency and...
Can an AI PMS Run Your Short-Term Rental Portfolio?, With Boom Co-Founder & CEO Shahar Goldboim
In this episode, Shahar Goldboim, co‑founder and CEO of Boom, explains why short‑term rentals (STRs) are the most complex asset class and how fragmented software tools trap hosts in a review‑driven revenue loop. He describes the genesis of Boom—a Business‑as‑Software...
Cooling Construction Workers with Human-Centric Tech, with Tiffany Yeh, MD Co-Founder & CEO Of...
The Tangent Proptek episode spotlights Dr. Tiffany Yeh, co‑founder and CEO of Estia Materials, who unveiled a human‑centric cooling solution for construction and mining crews. Her company’s proprietary hydrogel, branded Hydrovolt, absorbs body heat and releases it through a...
Cooling Construction Workers with Human-Centric Tech, with Tiffany Yeh, MD Co-Founder & CEO of Eztia Materials
In this episode, Dr. Tiffany Yeh, MD, co‑founder and CEO of climate‑tech startup Eztia Materials, discusses the urgent heat challenge facing construction workers and how human‑centric cooling technologies can protect them. She explains the science behind Eztia’s HydroVolt material, its...