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)