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Tangent: Conversations with Real Estate & Tech InnovatorsRetail | How to Scale Store Expansion with the Tech Behind Apple & Tesla, with SiteRise CEO Dillon OknerDillon Okner is the Founder & Partner of SiteRise, a retail development and construction platform helping brands streamline site selection, store development, and portfolio expansion. With more than 15 years of experience in retail construction and operations, Dillon previously helped support the expansion of major brands including Apple and Tesla. Today, he focuses on helping retailers, restaurants, and franchise operators eliminate development bottlenecks and open locations faster through better data, workflow management, and portfolio visibility.(01:13) - How Retail Openings Break(03:36) - Retail Innovation Edge (05:00) - Store development with SiteRise(07:38) - Apple & Tesla Lessons (09:26) - Proprietary...
2026-06-0223 min
SaaS Backwards - Reverse Engineering SaaS SuccessEp. 196 - The SaaS Opportunity Hidden Inside ServicesSend us Fan MailGuest: Dillon Okner, Founding Partner of The Oak Group / SiteRise -- In this episode, we look at how a services business can become the proving ground for a SaaS opportunity.Dillon Okner, founding partner of The Oak Group and creator of SiteRise, joins us to talk about building software from the inside of a professional services business. SiteRise was born from repeated problems Dillon saw while helping retail brands manage construction, store openings, document control, reporting, and cross-functional planning.We dig in...
2026-04-2425 min
Fully Occupied95 - Streamlining Your Retail Planning Process | Ft. Dillon Okner from SiteRiseDillon Okner is a Co-Founder of SiteRise, a platform that helps companies, especially emerging retail brands, centralize their entire process for site selection and build out door opening for retail stores. Dillon has over 15 years of experience building out in-house software to help brands like Apple and Tesla expand their initial retail presence. He joins Matt to talk about some of the key challenges that retailers face when it comes to store planning, and how can technology solutions address these challenges.
2023-08-2322 min