Gabe Joseph

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319 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · Curiosity Over Ego: Specs & Real Margins · 10 Sep 2025 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, I think if people are being honest, the whole business is a hard shit, right?

Like you're combining all the elements of production, logistics, entrepreneurism, uh, in a wildly variable market with a lot of, you know, unpredictability, uh,

city inspections and financing and third party clients, all these things.

So none of it's easy.

And so if it's all going to be hard anyway, why not look at a bigger target?

I had a really interesting conversation with a guy who was a project executive for like the third or fourth largest commercial GC in Texas.

These guys built stadiums and schools and things like that.

And his personal pipeline he was managing was about one and a half billion at that time.

And I said, what's the hardest part?

What's the most difficult thing at that scale?

And he goes, oh, man, it's getting people to pay change orders and it's getting the office to not screw up the accounting.

It was all the exact same stuff that at that time we were dealing with as a small builder.

that's going so it never gets any better and he goes nope it's like this all the way up and i was like well that's depressing in a way it's also encouraging because it means that you know there are only so many so many pieces involved in that in that business then you just start figuring out how they work and keep figuring it out and you know hopefully we'll get there

Yeah, it's how fast can you solve problems?

And more importantly, how many of them can you anticipate and eliminate before they present themselves as something that's actually going to be expensive, whether that's time, money, or both?

So I get that this is a much more maybe philosophical discussion about the construction business and not so much the technical details.

But I think I spend a lot more time thinking about this than I do the spreadsheet and the bid and the budget and why the framer didn't show up today.

Because all that's going to happen anyway.

I'll totally listen to it.

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