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Episode 15: Mailbag: Architects, Hiring Mistakes, Contech BS, Test Days & Gas Station Sandwiches
A different kind of episode this week — the first Build Better mailbag. Five questions I get asked all the time, batched into one show.
Matt covers what he wishes architects understood about working with a Design-Build GC vs. the old adversarial Design-Bid-Build model, the biggest mistake he's made as a leader and how he rectified it (hint: it's about who he kept around too long), why most construction tech being sold today is "VC theater" solving problems that don't exist, what a "test day" looks like and how he resets, and a story from the late 90s involving negative temperatures, a 3-story…
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