ICYMI: LIVE at Suffolk, $33M+ Raised Across ConTech, & Spacemaker's Exit Lessons

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Owen Drury
November 21, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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W/C 17th November 2025

BRICKS & BYTES LIVE
LIVE at Suffolk Technologies

Hear from the BOOST 6 co-hort, Suffolk Construction CTO Jit Kee Chin, AutoDesk VP on Corporate Development David Hindley, Goldbeck's Danny Dellit & Björn Felicetti and Suffolk's very own Parker Mundt.

NEW EPISODES

"The Industry Is Fundamentally Incapable of Change" - Spacemaker Founder Explains Why

Carl Christensen, co-founder of Spacemaker (acquired by Autodesk), shares why the AEC industry struggles with digital transformation, how outcome-based design can break through systemic barriers, and what it really takes to sell your company..

90% of Construction Firms Have ZERO Employees - The Reality of Residential Construction in America

Dmitry Alexin from Handoff talks about how AI is transforming residential construction, why 90% of US construction firms are one-person operations struggling with back-office work, and how a former IMF economist ended up building technology that delivers cost estimates in 30 seconds.

PlanGrid Founders Return to Construction, 27% of GCs Using Personal Funds, $9.2M Nextlight Raise, AI Go-To-Market Race, with Will Mitchell from Rabbit

We break down the biggest shakeups in construction tech, from the PlanGrid founders' surprise return to AI, to the shocking payment crisis threatening to sink contractors across the industry.

BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

The Data Fragmentation Problem Killing Your Project Performance - Joe Wilson - EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: Joe Wilson went from GC to developer to owner's rep, and saw the same data chaos everywhere. Here's what he built

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

If you only work with kind of generalist venture capital firms and you're kind of sitting there in Cerebral Valley...you're going to be very isolated from the reality of construction."

- Dmitry Alexin on the SF tech bubble's disconnect from construction realities

"None of these companies are building their own foundational models. They're using models and they're using other people's models. And so I just, I think that it's going to be a go-to-market race."

- Dustin DeVan on why multiple AI companies will succeed rather than one winner

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