currently in safety orientation on largest and most critical AI infra construction project in the US
they have to restrict operating hours to accommodate endangered bats
smh
Every other industry doubled productivity in the last 50 years. Construction lost 30%. @fredfilz and Mohamed Sadek, founders of Crewline, are automating the machines. Great piece by @FastCompany on how.
We're excited to have led their $7.1M seed.
They're hiring builders: https://t.co/nt2ibXIX2M.
Construction is facing labor shortages and productivity stagnation. The startup Crewline wants to solve those problems with autonomous machinery. https://t.co/XJgnBkxFZm
Most people in SF have no idea how hard non-VC businesses are.
Once you raise VC, you buy time:
- 2 years of runway
- Big margin for error
- Money goes into building, not delivering
- Office + laptop =/= existential risk
That’s a luxury.
In a traditional business, your ass is on the line day 1.
You need revenue immediately.
Every dollar goes into delivery first.
No one lends to you. Forget debt without a personal guarantee.
At MMY US we started with nothing in 2023.
No VC. No product.
We convinced a developer we could build homes faster than anyone else - before we had a factory.
Within 2 years:
- Built an 80,000 sqft housing factory
- Delivered hundreds of affordable homes
- Cut home construction timelines from 14 months → 4 months, fastest in the world
- $30M revenue
- 100 employees
- Customers included state + city governments
VC is hard.
Bootstrapped, asset-heavy execution businesses are harder.
Different games. Massive respect to operators who ship from day one.