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W/C 16th March 2026

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Procore's $500M Bet On A Blog No One Took Seriously

He turned down $15 million at 30 years old. Owned almost the entire company. Could have walked away, set for life. Instead, Scott Wolfe took the lowest valuation on the table. Not because he needed the money. Because he wanted the right partners, not the biggest cheque. Six years later, Procore paid $500 million for Levelset. But the craziest part of this story isn't the exit.

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The 135% ROI Contractor | How Top-Quartile Builders Are 11x More Profitable Than Their Competitors

Matt Stevens, Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University, talks about the financial patterns behind contractor failure, the metrics most firms never track, and why the construction industry is far more innovative than people give it credit for.

Executive Briefing: Construction Is Spending Billions on the Wrong Problem

50 senior AEC leaders were interviewed about their AI strategies. Every one was bullish. Every one was optimising the same broken system. Not one was rethinking the operating model. That finding sat at the centre of everything that happened this week.

The Next Biggest Hype in AI is Here + Concrete Robots, Moonshots and Volkswagen Cuts

"Within six months, every company will call themselves a world model company just to raise money." That's the prediction coming out of AMI Labs — Yann LeCun's $1 billion AI research fund. We spoke about what world models actually are, why they matter for construction, and why the hype cycle is already loading.

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