ICYMI: Figma's 50% Crash, Prefab Marketplace Gaps, and Tens of Millions Missing PMs

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Owen Drury
September 12, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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W/C 8th September 2025

NEW EPISODES
Why Construction Lacks Qualified Project Managers - Project Manager Shortage & AI Automation Solutions From Tech Leaders In Construction

Greg Lawton from Nodes & Links shares 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 physics behind project acceleration.

Find out why the construction industry needs a billion more project managers and how AI workers will fill the gap, how one customer saved $63,000 per scheduler per year using automation software, and the brutal reality of startup hiring - 0.3% acceptance rate from 15,000 CVs reviewed.


Microsoft's $10M AEC Gamble, Autodesk $1.7B Earnings, Nemetscheck Acquires AI Startup

In this episode, we dive into the biggest tech moves shaking up construction while welcoming guests from two hot startups that just raised millions.

Key topics discussed: Microsoft's massive $10M AI bet with Balfour Beatty - and why some think it's overpriced, Bluebeam acquires Firmus AI in a surprising exit story, Autodesk's crushing $1.7B earnings that made investors very happy, why Figma's stock crashed despite good earnings, OneCrew raises $7.5M to modernize paving contractors, and BuildFactory's $3.3M raise for prefab marketplace (plus an epic stealth mode fail).


This New Pre-Fab Marketplace Will Solve Construction's Hidden Capacity Crisis

Britton Langdon shares 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 industry.

Find out how he achieved 140% net retention at M-Suite before selling to Stanley Black & Decker, why every prefab shop has hidden capacity but nobody talks about it, and the marketplace approach to solving construction's supply and demand problem.

BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

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.

Distribution Beats Product: Lessons From a Two-Time Founder- Maksim Markevich - EARLY RELEASE

Maksim Markevich, CEO of Sunbim and co-founder of PVFARM, shares brutal truths about building AEC tech companies.

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Most people are like, holy shit."

- Greg Lawton describing how clients respond when they see 20-hour reports generated in 7 minutes

"If you don't find much luck on the dating apps with not getting enough swipes, put Stealth Founder on LinkedIn and you will get at least 50 VCs reaching out to you."

-Patric Hellermann joke about how "stealth" status attracts investor attention

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