Figma's IPO a Robbery? + Schneider Electric SOLD OUT till 2030

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Owen Drury
August 11, 2025

Data centers, IPO drama, and why pilots keep killing innovation

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

🏗 Turner Construction posts a jaw-dropping 44% revenue jump to $13.4B in H1 2025, powered by $12.6B in data centers alone.

📈 The Figma IPO pops then drops, and Patric calls out the bankers for “highway robbery.”

🤖 Nearly half of enterprise AI projects are failing, and the reasons sound eerily familiar to construction tech.


But that’s not all:

  • Why Turner’s “SourceBlue” logistics arm could be its quiet billion-dollar profit machine.

  • The pilot project trap. How 2-year zombie pilots waste innovation budgets.

  • Recruiting in construction is broken. Meet Dex from Propel People, fresh off a $3M seed to fix it.


🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why sports stadiums and healthcare are Turner’s other hidden goldmines

  • The 300× forward-earnings madness of Figma’s first trading day

  • How to fix tech adoption before your pilot drags on for years

  • The looming energy bottleneck threatening AI infrastructure


🗣 Bonus: Some personal highlights

  • Why “OK” comes from a 19th-century President

  • Patric’s thoughts on military-style procurement for software

  • Dustin’s case for pilots with hard, fast ROI deadlines

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