# Jason Jacob

Principales episodios de podcast
Actualizado:

The Real Challenge of AI Transformation - Professor Jerry Kane

Professor Jerry Kane has spent more than a decade studying digital transformation and how organizations adapt to new technology. In this episode, we explore what AI transformation actually looks like inside an organization - and why Jerry believes the technology itself may be the easy part. We dis…

Inside a 35-Person Elevator Contractor - Matt Pincus, Pincus Elevator

Matt Pincus is Owner of Pincus Elevator, a family-owned elevator contractor founded by his father in 1953. In this episode, Matt takes us inside the day-to-day realities of running a specialty contracting business. His biggest constraint is skilled labor: elevator mechanics take years to develop, …

WorkHero: The AI Back Office for HVAC w/ Furman Haynes

BuiltForward host Jason Jacobs interviews Furman Haynes, co-founder and CEO of WorkHero, an “AI back office” for the smallest HVAC contractors - often one- to three-truck shops. WorkHero takes 10–20 hours per week of admin like invoicing, permits, heat pump rebates, and other paperwork off contrac…

The innovation team has no budget - Kevin Halter on how construction software actually gets bought

The innovation team is not the buyer. The project is. Kevin Halter has spent about 15 years figuring out how technology actually gets bought and adopted in construction. He led sales at PlanGrid as the company grew from roughly $5 million to $120 million in revenue before Autodesk acquired it for…

"Construction Supply Chains Are Starving" - Guy Saxelby of Earlytrade on Cash Flow, Risk, and Getting Subcontractors Paid

Construction has more bankruptcies than any other sector. Almost none of them are about bad building. Guy Saxelby is the co-founder and CEO of Earlytrade, a marketplace that lets subcontractors get paid early on invoices that have already been approved. The sub names a discount, the general contra…

The Equipment Is Not the System - Ed Smith of Amply Energy on Building Better HVAC Businesses

Ed Smith ran Wayfair's Canada business to nearly a billion dollars in revenue. Then he spent a year installing heat pumps - and learned firsthand why there's no such thing as a nationwide home-retrofit contractor: the equipment is not the system. The system is what a good contractor custom-manufact…

BuiltForward Trailer

BuiltForward explores how AI, technology, and leadership are reshaping construction—and the broader physical economy. Host Jason Jacobs, an entrepreneur and investor, learns in public through conversations with the operators, founders, and leaders driving that transformation. Together they dig into…

Bridging Startup & Industry: A Conversation with Ben Price of WND Ventures

Ben Price joins Jason to explain how WND Ventures - the venture arm of DPR Construction - connects startups with one of the country’s largest general contractors. WND helps emerging technology companies test their products on active DPR projects and may invest when those pilots demonstrate real val…

Build vs. Buy in the Age of AI - Longtime Construction CIO Rob Spencer on the Future of Construction Technology

Rob Spencer has spent more than 27 years inside construction companies, working his way from warehouse laborer to CIO and Chief Administrative Officer. He now runs BuiltTech Strategy Group, advising contractors on technology strategy, systems, AI and digital transformation. In this conversation, we…

The Future of HVAC: Thalo Labs and Predictive Maintenance

Brendan Hermalyn is the founder and CEO of Thalo Labs, which builds connected technology that helps commercial HVAC contractors monitor equipment, diagnose problems, and identify potential failures before they happen. In this episode, Jason and Brendan discuss how technology could transform HVAC fr…