Why real estate needs more tech founders

Matt Giffune, Occupier

Real estate has lagged in terms of digital adoption and there’s a massive opportunity waiting for founders. Today’s guest is someone who seized it. I want to find out how he did it.

Matt Giffune is the founder of Occupier, an end-to-end lease lifecycle management software platform for commercial tenants.

Matt Giffune

Occupier

Matt Giffune is the founder of Occupier, an end-to-end lease lifecycle management software platform for commercial tenants.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is Matt . He is an entrepreneur in real estate who had an idea launched.

It actually got people use it of my right map, but not pay for it the

Matt: Yeah. Yes, you’re correct. My re my original idea. We’ll we’ll call it an idea. Yeah.

Andrew: It was more than idea. You actually put it into action. And as a result, you ended up getting a job at a software company in the real estate world. And then you realize, oh, there’s a way to bring this idea back. And so it is back baby. It is called occupier. It’s got clients that are well-known to many of us and the company has traction and funding, which I know was hard for him to get.

And I invited him here to talk about how he did it, what happened the first time that. Kept it from taking off what he...

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