ICYMI: $100B Stock Surge, Skanska's Tool Overload, and PVFARM's Go-to-Market

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Owen Drury
September 19, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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W/C 15th September 2025

NEW RELEASE
TRAILER - GOLDBECK - The World’s Most Advanced Construction Powerhouse

The full documentary will be out next week, on Friday, 26 September. 

Featured interviews:

NEW EPISODES
Second-Time Founders Still Fail - Solar Market Lessons from Kreo Spinoff

Maksim Markevich shares why distribution beats product in AEC, how he cracked the $150M solar design market, and why most startup marketing tactics fail in construction tech.

Find out why relationship-based sales trump amazing products in AEC, the two pathways to selling enterprise software in construction, and why LinkedIn outreach and email marketing don't work for AEC startups.


Oracle $100B Hour, AI Government Fail, OpenSpace CEO, Barefoot Office Debate

We dive deep into the wild world of tech promises, government failures, and what's really happening behind the scenes in construction technology.

Key topics discussed: Oracle's shocking $300 billion OpenAI deal and Larry Ellison's instant $100 billion windfall, why the UK government's Microsoft Copilot trial was a complete disaster, and the brutal truth about why companies keep buying expensive software that doesn't work.


Skanska Reveals - Why Construction Companies Have 300+ Software Tools But Still Can't Get Work Done

Michael and Danielle from Skanska discuss the brutal reality of construction tech adoption, why VCs keep backing the wrong startups, and how pricing models are completely broken for the industry.

Find out why construction companies are drowning in software but starving for solutions, the real reason progress tracking tools cost a dollar per square foot, and how AI hype is following the exact same pattern as the cloud revolution.

BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

Bridgit's Workforce Planning Story - Lauren Lake & Kevin Ferguson - EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: How do you replace Excel at enterprise scale? The Bridgit story shows exactly how to build category leadership in construction tech.

What Pharmaceutical Construction Reveals About Tech ROI - James Mize - EARLY RELEASE

Most construction technology fails to stick. James Mize from CRB reveals why in this unfiltered conversation about what really drives enterprise tech adoption decisions.

How Procore Plans to Win BIM - Dave McCool & Tore Hovland - EARLY RELEASE

Procore's billion-dollar BIM bet: Why they acquired NovaRender and Flypaper, the real adoption numbers, and the streaming tech that could kill drawings forever.

The $275M Sale: BuildingConnected's Sales Motion - Mike Pettinella - EARLY RELEASE

Mike Pettinella, CRO at OnSiteIQ and former VP of Sales at BuildingConnected, reveals the strategies that built one of construction tech's biggest success stories.

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

"If you have no competitors, you probably aren't in a real market. You're probably off on Pluto and no one actually wants what you want... capitalism has a way of creating competition."

- Jeevan Kalanithi on competition as market validation rather than threat

"Understanding of the market, of the problems, of the value chain is crucial. It is way more crucial than technology itself, in my opinion."

- Maksim Markevich on the fundamental shift in thinking after realizing technical prowess alone doesn't guarantee success

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