# Dustin Devan

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Is Palantir Actually Changing Construction? | Turner’s $29B Revenue, Wealth Tax & Heat Pumps

Everyone's losing their mind over Palantir entering construction. There's just one problem they've been here for years, and nobody noticed. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Martin, and Dustin Devan cut through the LinkedIn noise, get into why global instability should be keeping cons…

Trimble Just Bought Document Crunch, OpenAI Is Worth More Than Elon Musk, Vibe Coding Is Killing Construction Tech & How Pre-Con AI Does 4 Days Work in 45 Minutes

Four companies. One acquisition. One $852 billion valuation. Forty-five minutes turned into four days. This is the biggest episode we've ever recorded. Document Crunch just got acquired by Trimble. Josh told us live, before most of the industry knew. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, …

4 Founders. $700M+ In Exits. The Truth About Selling A Startup

"Companies are bought, not sold."That single line from Yves Frinault reframed the entire conversation on our first-ever Exited Founder Acquisition Roundtable.We sat down with four construction tech founders who collectively sold their companies for hundreds of millions:✅ Yves Frinault (Fieldwire → …

Why Pre-Con Is So Broken, AI Takeoff Hype, California Wealth Tax, $2.18T Construction Spend & Bentley’s $424M Quarter

"Pre-construction has become less efficient than construction itself." That is the claim Dustin Devan made on this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes after returning from Advancing Pre-Con. Martin, Patric Hellermann and Dustin also dug into the proposed California wealth tax, Bentley's Q1 earnings, and w…

AI Costs Are Quietly Exploding, HS2 now £102.7bn, Waymo Steals Luggage

"Mandating how many AI tokens your engineers burn isn't a productivity metric. It has nothing to do with outcomes." That's Dustin Devan, CEO of Ediphi and it's one of the sharpest takes on the AI spend debate we've had on the show This week on Bricks, Bucks and Bytes we're joined by Cameron Page of…

The $3.6 Billion Bet On Construction's Future

A venture capitalist walks into a bar. "I'll have what everyone else is having." Patrick told that joke about his own profession on this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, and it set up the sharpest exchange of the episode: venture stopped backing hard problems and started buying momentum. We're joined …

AI Price Collapse, Data Center Boom, Japan 1989 Warning, & Why Corporate RFPs Are Broken

"The US is dangerously close to the brink of being Japan 1989." That is not a hot take from a doom account. That is Patric on this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, laying out why asset overvaluation in private markets and infrastructure has him worried about stagflation. On this episode: ✅ Why data ce…

Bill Gates Warns On Robots By 2030, Meta's AI Wrote 220% More Code And Shipped Almost Nothing, Meta's $18B Settlement, & The First Software Tax In California History

Bill Gates says robots will take construction jobs by 2030. Dustin DeVan offered to bet his entire net worth against it. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Dustin and Martin pull apart the 6,000 word essay Gates published this week and ask the question nobody in construction wants to a…

Why Software Costs Rise but Productivity Doesn't, Solow Paradox Explained & How OpenAI Agents Breach Hugging Face

700 AI agents hacked Hugging Face. They built a secret notice board inside OpenAI's own infrastructure, swapped over 70,000 messages on it, split the work between them and then tried to cover their tracks. The headlines called it a warning shot for humanity. So we asked two people who actually depl…

Episode 15: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

Every software vendor in construction has an AI story right now. Very few can explain what's happening underneath it. In this episode, we skip past "is it cloud?" and "does it have AI?" and ask the questions that will decide which pre-con tech stacks survive the next five years. Troy and Trey sit d…