134: Architecture, And: Growing a Tech Start-up out of an Architecture Firm

Practice Disrupted by Practice of Architecture · Nov 2, 2023 · 42m

Episode 134: Architecture, And: Growing a Tech Start-up out of an Architecture Firm

How does architecture support a CEO stepping out and into a specialized tech start-up space?

On this episode of Practice Disrupted, we sit down with Zach Soflin, AIA, the Founder and CEO of Layer, the first and only flexible and mobile-friendly building management software. First, we learn how the company was created in response to the Nebraska State Capitol Building where Zach and his previous firm, BVH, were looking to connect field data to their designs. Zach built his own solution, which would become the…