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W/C 9th March 2026

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The $1.2bn Exit That Shouldn't Have Happened

He built it for 18 years. Then he cried in an empty lobby when it sold for $1.2 billion. Rob Phillpot co-founded Aconex in 2000, a document management platform that became the biggest construction tech exit in history and the largest tech acquisition Australia had ever seen.

NEW EPISODES

Global CTO: “AI Met Construction Where It Already Was - And Everything Changed” | Alain Waha, Buro Happold

Alain Waha, CTO at BuroHappold Engineering, discusses AI transformation, the future of physical AI, and why 2026 already feels like three years have passed in nine weeks.

Executive Briefing: Construction Just Got Its Google Translate Moment

A war in Iran is threatening global supply chains. A CTO at a 3,500-person engineering firm says construction just accidentally solved its oldest problem. And the knowledge crisis is actually two problems, not one.

Is Palantir Actually Changing Construction? | Turner’s $29B Revenue, Wealth Tax & Heat Pumps

We cut through the LinkedIn noise, get into why global instability should be keeping construction CEOs up at night, and sit down with Tobias Klug, founder of nuuEnergy who just raised €4.3M to rethink how heat pumps get installed across Germany.