ICYMI: Turner's $13.4B Revenue, TestFit's Pod Strategy, and the $20B Figma Fiasco

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Owen Drury
August 15, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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TestFit Does 1000+ Iterations Per MILLISECOND - Construction AI That Actually Delivers

Laura Paciano and Jack Joers from TestFit share how they're collapsing two months of pursuit costs into a single day, why big tech giants keep failing in construction, and how one customer won $750,000 more business in their first year.

Find out why innovation is never asked for and how to educate markets on solutions they don't know they need, how TestFit collapses the traditional 2-month feasibility process into one day with live collaboration, and why architects are the hardest to convince but quickest to adopt new technology once they decide.


Turner's 44% Growth, Figma IPO Rogue Calculations, Meta's $150B Block & AI's 85% Fail Rate with Dex from Propel People

We dive deep into the shocking stories reshaping the construction industry, plus a special guest appearance from construction tech veteran Dex who just raised $3 million to solve the industry's biggest crisis.

We cover Turner Construction's mind-blowing 44% revenue growth (and why it's "impossible"), the Figma IPO scandal that cost early investors millions, and why Meta can't spend $150 billion even though they want to.


Fieldwire's $300m Exit Journey

Yves Frinault shares how military training shaped his leadership style, why gaming experience was crucial for building construction software, and the near-death moment that almost killed Fieldwire.

Find out how paratrooper training taught him fairness in leadership, why he went from half salary to a successful Series A in months, and how Fieldwire broke the $100M curse with their Hilti acquisition.

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"I joke with the team, I'm like on Wednesdays we change pricing. Just because we need to test, we need to push and see where that market fit really is."

- Laura Paciano on the iterative nature of finding the right pricing model

"I would like to really meet these bankers in a dark alley after we had a few beers. Because this, honestly, is highway robbery for the existing investors."

- Patric Hellermann expressing frustration about Figma's IPO underpricing

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