"I make a horrible employee. I'm not a good employee at a big company."

That's how Nitin Bhandari, third-time founder and CEO of Planera, describes why he keeps starting companies instead of joining them.

In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Nitin Bhandari and we got to learn about his journey from wireless networks to construction tech, the critical mistakes first-time founders make, and why scheduling software has stayed stuck in the stone age while every other industry moved forward... and many more!

Tune in to find out about:

✅ Why he spent 9 months just learning construction before building anything

✅ How he landed customers who wanted to invest their own money in his company

✅ The real reason construction scheduling is broken (it's not what you think)

✅ Why hiring for culture fit matters more than most founders realize

Listen now on Spotify and discover how an outsider is transforming one of construction's most critical workflows.

"We don't want this data to exist because if the owner knows it exists, they'll be all over us."

This shocking confession from a contractor reveals the massive information gap plaguing the $2 trillion construction industry.

In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Ardalan Khosrowpour, CEO of OnsiteIQ, and we got to learn about why contractors intentionally hide project data from owners, how 95% of construction projects don't even use their BIM models, and the brutal reality of 3% profit margins that force underbidding... and many more!

Tune in to find out about:

✅ Why the construction industry suffers from deliberate information asymmetry

✅ How network effects can create monopolies in vertical markets

✅ The stark difference between contractor mindset ($1.5M profit) vs owner mindset ($150M asset)

✅ Why selling to capital allocators beats selling to contractors every time

Listen now on Spotify to discover how one founder is revolutionizing construction oversight by working with owners instead of contractors.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:45 The Power of Network Effects in Real Estate

04:47 Understanding the Construction Intelligence Platform

07:38 Data Capture and Its Impact on Project Management

10:40 Misalignment of Incentives in Construction

13:46 The Role of Transparency in Construction Projects

16:44 Challenges in Selling Technology to Owners

19:52 Monitoring and Analyzing Construction Progress

22:45 Quality Control and Data Comparison in Construction

34:14 Building a Data-Driven Construction Model

39:45 Challenges in Selling to Owners

43:13 Outbound Sales Strategies and Market Dynamics

48:59 Generating Demand Through Product Value

54:25 Defensibility and Competition in the Market

Could mobile factories revolutionize homebuilding and solve the housing crisis? One company thinks they've cracked the code.

In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sit down with Alex Gample, co-founder of Cuby, who's tackling America's housing shortage with a radical approach: containerized micro-factories that can be deployed anywhere to manufacture homes at $100-110 per square foot—significantly cheaper than traditional construction.

Key topics discussed:

How Cuby's mobile micro-factories work and why they chose a distributed model over gigafactories

The company's ambitious plan to deploy 275 factories over the next decade

Why construction productivity hasn't improved in decades while other industries have transformed

How they're using unskilled labor with advanced software guidance to replace skilled construction workers

The regulatory challenges that have killed previous housing innovation attempts

Their partnership model with local developers and the economics behind it

Why Eastern European engineering talent is giving them a 7-10x cost advantage

The three-phase master plan from factory deployment to vertical integration

"For every seven folks that now retire from the construction industry, only one replaces them... nine out of 10 times no one even has in their immediate circle someone that swings a hammer."

Discover how Cuby is reimagining homebuilding from the ground up, why their "antithesis" approach might succeed where others have failed, and what it could mean for making homeownership accessible again.