Carbon accounting collapsed. Apple outplayed everyone. And construction’s next IPO might be a warning sign.
In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:
🌳 Carbon offsets are mostly fiction; up to 90% of rainforest credits may be worthless
📉 $2.3B poured into carbon accounting software… for a market that barely exists
🧮 Construction carbon math is broken: high effort, near-zero confidence
💸 Plan A’s “€55M exit” looks very different once you open the public filings
🎙️ Special guest:
Tom Yeshurun (Civ Robotics) explains how robots are now doing in hours what surveyors used to do in days, laying out thousands of points on solar farms, roads, and megaprojects with millimeter accuracy.
But that’s not all:
Apple’s quiet AI masterstroke: why waiting beats racing
Why Gemini (not OpenAI) ended up inside Siri
Google paying Apple ~$20B a year to not build search
EquipmentShare’s $6B IPO ambition: impressive business or financial gymnastics?
🎧 Listen now for:
Why carbon accounting became a consultant economy
How AI hype and regulation are pulling in opposite directions
What real construction tech scale actually looks like
Why some “exits” aren’t really exits