Live from Nashville: Autodesk, Procore, and more

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Owen Drury
September 22, 2025

AI booths everywhere, Autodesk underwhelms, and ETH says architects should be entrepreneurs.

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

🎤 Live from Autodesk University in Nashville - AI booths everywhere, but underwhelming announcements.

🤖 Hardware is back - robotics, vaulted slabs, and timber panels sparking debates on what’s truly venture-backable.

📈 Mega rounds in contech - $14M into Trunk Tools and $50M into GreenLight drawing eyes across the industry.


But that’s not all:

  • Patric calls out the “bubble logic” around Nvidia using tulips, CBRE, and Coinbase as his counterexamples.

  • Martin moderates at ETH Zurich and argues: stop funding “innovation theatre,” start teaching entrepreneurship.

  • Owen goes full field-reporter from Nashville, catching the Autodesk vs. Procore rivalry on the ground.


🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why Autodesk’s future bets hinge on Construction Cloud

  • The real challenges of scaling new building materials

  • How universities (and VCs) can flip their approach to AEC startups


🗣 Bonus: Some personal highlights

  • Owen nearly bricks his iPhone trying to stream live from the expo hall

  • Patrick gets an NFL locker room tour with the LA Rams president

  • Martin is officially “Professor of Entrepreneurship” (ETH booked him again)

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