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Bill Douglas: Own your data or somebody else will.

August 06, 2026

In this episode, Kevin chats with Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, a data and digital infrastructure company for commercial real estate. Bill helps owners and operators stop treating their digital systems like scattered gadgets and start managing them like mission critical infrastructure.Bill calls it the triangle. The property manager runs the building, the asset manager runs the investment, the IT manager runs the office systems, and the building's networks, sensors and data sit in the middl...

Shlomo Chopp: Complexity is the opportunity. Binary thinking is the trap.

June 17, 2026

On this episode, Kevin chats with Shlomo Chopp, the Managing Partner of CASE, a distressed commercial real estate advisory and investment firm that runs about 90% advisory work and a small, highly selective book of opportunistic investments. Shlomo and his team are currently working on roughly 20 loans totaling more than $2 billion of debt, and he comes out of a family office with over 35 years of experience owning and operating about 70 properties across the country. He's a college dropout w...

Aleks Gampel: We're not trying to reinvent the wheel. We're just trying to make it spin faster.

June 01, 2026

On this episode, Kevin chats with Aleks Gampel, co-founder of Cuby Technologies, a hardware and software company that's built a completely new type of home construction. With 243 people across three continents and a million engineering hours invested, Cuby has developed a mobile micro factory: a containerized, plug-and-play factory in a box that ships to any market and manufactures single-family homes with unskilled labor at roughly $100 a square foot in 30 days.Aleks walks us through how Cub...