
Collin Creach is a Senior Account Executive at Outbuild, which is a construction scheduling and planning software. Before Outbuild, Collin has spent the last 12 years working in the construction industry, mostly in construction tech. Collin started out in the industry with Barton Malow, a large general contractor when he graduated college, then moved on to Bluebeam where he spent 7 years, and was also a Sales Leader with Procore. Collin is passionate about working with people in the construction industry to help solve problems and improve processes with the help of technology. In our conversation, we discuss about: 1) Construction Technology Startups 2) How did Procore and Blubeam succeed? 3) Importance of Integrations of Point Solutions to an Enterprise Platform 4) Issues faced in the world of construction technology and scheduling 5) How to optimize scheduling and planning on construction projects Where to find Collin Creach: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/collincreach/ Where to find Siddhant Mehta: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidhant-mehta/ Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:05 Switch from BBA to Construction 5:10 Journey at Bluebeam 9:02 Mars Rover and the start of Bluebeam 13:30 Getting companies to buy into Product/Tech 16:29 Life Cycle of a Start-up 18:42 Parallels between Procore and Blubeam 22:47 What is Outbuild 24:58 Scheduling vs Planning 27:37 Areas of Improvement in Scheduling 30:55 Common Issues and how to solve it 37:10 How do Integrations with Enterprise Platforms work 40:39 Pros and Cons of working in ConTech Startup 43:12 Advice for Young Professionals 45:20 Outro Subscribe, and Drop a like and comment below with your thoughts. Reach out to me on LinkedIn if you want to be a part of the podcast and have insights that you'd like to share.