TOOLS TALENTS AND TECHNIQUES with Dustin Sutton

Commercial real estate has operated the same way for decades. Fragmented data. Siloed systems. Brokers jumping between five different platforms just to find a single owner's name. Dan Mosher saw that broken workflow and decided to fix it.Dan is the CEO and co-founder of DealGround, an AI-native data platform spanning 62M+ properties that is saving brokers an average of 20 hours per week. Before launching DealGround, he led the merchant team at Postmates through its $4.4B acquisition by Uber

Commercial real estate has changed dramatically over the decades. The fundamentals that drive success in it have not.In this episode, Dustin sits down with Peter Quinn, a veteran broker at Kidder Matthews whose career spans IBM sales training, land development, and some of the most dynamic market cycles San Diego has ever seen. Peter brings a perspective you can only earn through real experience over real time.The conversation covers how Peter made the pivot from IBM into CRE, what that

Joshua Volen did not stumble into commercial real estate. He built toward it, one lesson at a time, starting from childhood ventures that taught him more about business than any classroom ever could. In Episode 110, Dustin si...

Jonathan Hawkins built a legal practice most lawyers never considered. He represents law firms themselves, navigating breakups, partnership disputes, and business divorces that tear firms apart from the inside. In Episode 109...

The retail apocalypse narrative is wrong. Andy Weiner has the data to prove it.In this episode, Dustin sits down with Andy Weiner, President of Rockstep Capital, to break down what is actually happening in retail real estate and why the strongest operators are not just surviving but expanding. Andy shares how Rockstep Capital identifies opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets, why physical retail and e-commerce are partners not competitors, and what the limited supply of new shopping cen

Most managers think they are recognizing their employees. Most employees disagree. That gap is costing organizations more than they realize.In this episode, Dustin sits down with Dr. Bob Nelson, recognized as the number one management guru in the world three years running, and Mario Tamayo of the Tamayo Group to break down why employee recognition is one of the most underutilized tools in leadership and exactly what to do about it.Together they unpack the disconnect between how managers perceive