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Latest Episodes
202: How a City Gets Ready for Growth with Kyle Touchstone, Director of Raleigh Economic Development
What if the incentive package isn't what decides where a company goes?Kyle Touchstone grew up in South Mississippi, the kid of a hardware store owner who watched one large manufacturer change what a small business and its employees could...
201: Building Real Estate Operations that Scale with Leslie Cohen, Ops Alchemy
Founders can run a real estate firm on heroics for a while. At some point, the business needs a system.In this episode of Design Development, Leslie Cohen, Founder and Principal of Ops Alchemy, talks about strengthening operations, reduc...
200: Finding the Opportunity Inside Your Business with 2x Founder Matt Pierce, PIERCE Property Services
What if the most valuable thing a window cleaner brings down from the side of a building isn’t clean glass — but information?Matt Pierce started his career pounding the pavement, walking into restaurants, car dealerships, and stor...
199: How to Engineer Business Value: Scaling Smart, Hiring Right, and Creating Freedom with Rens Hayes IV (Guest Episode)
Most business owners go through a pivotal moment—their first real look behind the curtain at how buyers value companies. For Rens Hayes, that moment came when he went through a sale and due diligence process for his father’s structural steel bu...
198: Building Smarter: Construction, Cost & Growth with Jon Weiss, B2K Development
For roughly 40 years, developers looked at a six-acre oceanfront site in Long Beach and couldn’t get it done.Then B2K did.In this episode of Design Development, Jon Weiss explains what finally unlocked the 1.2-million-square-foot ...