Bricks And Bytes

"If you can't get to $5M in recurring revenue in 18 months, you're probably not venture fundable right now." KP Reddy just called out the entire construction tech ecosystem—and he's not holding back. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had KP Reddy and we got to learn about why most construction tech startups are chasing the wrong business model, how AI is fundam...

"Digital twins are still solving problems we haven't even imagined yet." In today's episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we had James Mize from CRB and we got to learn about why pharmaceutical and biotech construction is pushing the boundaries of what's possible with digital twins, the real reason most companies stick with their tech partners, and why information management...

Most construction companies think they're using BIM. They're not. And it's costing them 20% on every project. In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, Owen sits down with Dave from Procore's BIM team and Tore Hovland, founder of NovaRender (recently acquired by Procore), to unpack what's really happening in the BIM space and why two major acquisitions just changed the game. Key t...

Jan Hendrik Goldbeck CEO of GOLDBECK grew his family construction business from €750M to €7B by treating buildings like LEGO. In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sit down with Hendrik Goldbeck, CEO of Goldbeck Group, who reveals how 60 years of stubborn innovation and perfect timing transformed a small German metalworking shop into Europe's construction powerhouse. FULL DOCUMENTARY COMIN...

This German construction giant cracked the code on building 500 projects per year with LEGO-like precision. In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sit down with Fabian, Managing Director of Goldbeck Technologies, who reveals how this family-owned company complete rewrote the rules of construction by treating buildings like configurable products rather than one-off projects. FULL DOCUMENTARY COM...

"If you're a VP of Sales and things go wrong, you either failed or got a bad plan. But if you're a CRO and things go wrong, you probably shouldn't have taken the job." In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Mike Pettinella and we got to learn about scaling construction tech from zero to a $275M exit, the brutal realities of international expansion, and why targe...

"Don't build shitty products for problems that don't exist." This brutal advice from Maksim hit different. After spinning off from his first AEC tech company Kreo, he's now building PVFarm - solar design software that's pulling in $40K average revenue per customer. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Maksim and we got to learn about why distribution beats...

"One construction project required 18 different software tools just for daily operations - and that's considered normal in our industry." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Michael and Danielle from Skanska and we got to learn about the brutal reality of construction tech adoption, why VCs keep backing the wrong startups, and how pricing models are completely broken f...

"The world has an enormous shortage of qualified project managers - to the tune of tens of millions of people." In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Greg from Nodes & Links and we got to learn about how AI is solving construction's biggest workforce crisis, why American customers bite your hand off for ROI while Europeans think about it for budget cycles, and the...

99% of acquisition deals fail, but Britton Langdon beat the odds when a sneaky AI scraper accidentally announced his stealth startup to 30,000 people. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Britton Langdon and we got to learn about his journey from building M-Suite to launching BuildFactory, the hidden capacity problem in prefab shops, and why construction has more FOMO than any other...

"We acquired a robotics company that nobody knows about and robot costs just crashed from $100,000 to $15,000." In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Matt Daly, CMO of DroneDeploy, and we got to learn about the hidden robotics revolution happening in construction, why most startups are choosing the wrong funding path, and how AI agents with "a million eyeballs" a...

"Hardware is hard" is the biggest lie in tech. Yet VCs keep repeating it while holding their iPhones - literally a piece of hardware that made Apple one of the world's biggest companies. In today's episode of Bricks & bytes, we had Nathan Kirchner and we got to learn about why the "hardware is hard" myth is killing innovation in construction, how to break through corporate inertia, and the rea...

"AI can create decent poetry way before it can deal with engineering work." This blew my mind during our conversation with Francesco Iorio, CEO of Augmenta. The construction industry is facing a massive problem. The gap between what technology can do and how we actually build is bigger than almost any other field. Francesco shared how his team is tackling electrical design automation - o...

"We can do a few thousand iterations a millisecond. That gives people, you know, no loading screens, right? I want to generate and then edit, right?" That's how Jack from TestFit described their AI-powered generative design that's completely changing how buildings get planned. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Laura Paciano and Jack from TestFit and we got to learn about how they're...

Every construction startup gets acquired for less than $100 million. That's what Yves Frinault was told when he pitched Fieldwire back in 2013. They called it the "$100 million curse" that killed every construction tech company. But Yves had a different plan. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Yves Frinault and we got to learn about how military training shaped his...

"We're building about 30 times more square footage this year than we did last year." That's what Vikas Enti told me. And he's not talking about some massive construction company. He's talking about a startup that's completely reimagining how homes get built. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Vikas Enti, CEO of Reframe Systems and former Amazon Robot...

From clearing landmines to building the "Google Maps of what's beneath the ground" - sometimes the most unexpected backgrounds create the biggest breakthroughs. Most people can't imagine that we don't actually know where underground utilities are buried. Yet there are 169,000 construction projects happening every single day in the US that need this critical information. In to...

"Hiring young, cheap marketers is actually more expensive than hiring experienced ones." That's just one of the eye-opening insights from Phil Carpenter, a fractional CMO who specializes in AEC tech startups. In today's episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we had Phil Carpenter and we got to learn about why most AEC startups fail at marketing, the hidden costs of inexperienced h...

"Bringing in a CRO too early is the death of any business. It's like bringing in Lewis Hamilton and saying drive my Fiat in a school zone." In today's episode of the Bricks & Bytes, we had Ricky from Deep Space and we got to learn about why most founders hire the wrong sales leadership at the wrong time, how to scale from zero to unicorn status, and the brutal reality of go-t...

"We're in an industry that loves ROI calculators... but the industry has built some sort of skepticism to these ROI calculators." This reality check from David Horesh hit different. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had David Horesh and we got to learn about why construction marketing is still a blue ocean, how to avoid the handshake trap, and why memes might be your sec...

"Pen and paper is still one of the largest competitors that construction tech has." That's what Kalyn Lengieza, owner of Grindstone Consultants, told us during our latest conversation. And honestly, it hit different. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Kalyn and we got to learn about why authenticity beats fancy tech features, how relationships still drive deals in o...

"I can't tell you how many times I'm on LinkedIn, see an AEC tech company post something, click their profile, and have NO IDEA what they do." That's Kevin Ferguson speaking - and if a product marketing expert in our industry can't figure out what these companies do, what chance do customers have? In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Kevin and we got to le...

"WhatsApp processes billion-dollar construction orders while ERPs sit unused as glorified data entry systems in Africa.." In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Kagure Wamunyu from Jumba and we got to learn about how African tech companies must build entire ecosystems from scratch, why 60% of Kenya's GDP runs on mobile money, and how construction distribution works in e...

"We reacted too late to the labor shortage. Now we need to work smarter - it has to happen." In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Tyler Campbell, host of Construction Brothers Podcast, and we got to learn about why construction tech keeps failing, the reality behind the $13 trillion industry myth, and how major projects still run on Excel spreadsheets... and many more! Ty...

This physicist turned construction revolutionary by building houses faster than McDonald's serves burgers! In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sits down with Oleg, co-founder of Cuby, who's cracked the code on industrial-scale homebuilding with mobile micro-factories that can pump out a 2,000 sq ft house every single day. Key topics discussed: Why construction is still stuck in the s...