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The Upstream Shift: Replacing Construction's Compliance Bottleneck with Marian Pulford
Join Marian Pulford, Co-Founder and CEO of Kestrel Labs, for an insightful evaluation of why optimizing broken workflows is a losing strategy for category-defining startups. In the tech world, most founders compete by building incremental software wrappers designed to make manual tasks marginally faster or cheaper. Marian argues that the true deep-tech breakthroughs occur when operators challenge the foundational assumption that those painful workflows need to exist in the first place. Focusing on the built environment—one of the world's largest, most capital-intensive, yet least digitized…
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