"WhatsApp processes billion-dollar construction orders while ERPs sit unused as glorified data entry systems in Africa.."

In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Kagure Wamunyu from Jumba and we got to learn about how African tech companies must build entire ecosystems from scratch, why 60% of Kenya's GDP runs on mobile money, and how construction distribution works in emerging markets... and many more!

Tune in to find out about:

✅ How Uber Kenya became the first 100% cash market using manual Excel reconciliation

✅ Why Kenyans build homes instead of buying them due to 15% mortgage rates

✅ The reality of building construction tech in Africa where you become multiple businesses

✅ How WhatsApp has become the primary business operating system across African companies

From civil engineering to dropping out of Oxford PhD to revolutionize construction supply chains across Africa, Kagure shares the untold story of adapting global tech solutions to local market realities.

Her journey from handling driver strikes as Uber's face in Kenya to building Jumba shows how founders in emerging markets navigate challenges that don't exist elsewhere.

Watch now on Youtube to hear the full conversation about building in markets where traditional assumptions don't apply.

00:00 Intro01:55 Kagure's Journey: From Nairobi to Tech Innovator04:52 The Uber Experience: Adapting Technology to Local Markets07:53 Understanding Mobile Money: The Backbone of Kenyan Transactions10:53 Navigating Challenges: From Uber to EdTech13:59 The Birth of Jumba: Merging Construction and Technology16:48 Jumba's Business Model: Connecting Hardware Stores and Manufacturers20:09 Strategic Product Focus: Cement, Steel, and Beyond22:56 Scaling Operations: The Role of Hardware Stores in Construction25:45 SaaS Development: Building Technology for the Construction Industry28:30 Streamlining Financial Processes with SaaS29:35 Building Tech Products in Africa34:35 Navigating Talent and Fundraising in Kenya39:35 Understanding African Market Dynamics43:54 Sales Strategies in Construction Tech48:30 Challenges and Advantages of Being a Female Founder49:57 Lessons Learned and Future Ambitions

"We reacted too late to the labor shortage. Now we need to work smarter - it has to happen."

In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Tyler Campbell, host of Construction Brothers Podcast, and we got to learn about why construction tech keeps failing, the reality behind the $13 trillion industry myth, and how major projects still run on Excel spreadsheets... and many more!

Tyler shared eye-opening insights from his journey building FieldProof and interviewing hundreds of industry leaders.

Tune in to find out about:

✅ Why RFIs have become weapons for project delays

✅ The real reason construction apps fail to get field adoption

✅ How a £100 million project runs entirely on Excel

✅ Why robotics and AI agents are the only path forward

The construction industry is more fragmented than we think. Time to face the hard truths about where we're heading.

Watch now on Youtube to hear the full conversation about construction's biggest challenges and what comes next.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:50 Introduction and Podcast Origins

04:53 The Fragmentation of the Construction Industry

07:43 The Journey of Starting a Podcast

13:50 Content Creation and Audience Engagement

19:55 Challenges and Issues in the Construction Industry

28:14 Comparing Construction Markets: US vs UK

32:04 Mindset and Risk-Taking in Construction

36:17 The Role of Technology in Construction

39:36 Data Collection Challenges in Construction

44:44 The Future of Robotics in Construction

51:21 Human-Centric Technology in Construction

This physicist turned construction revolutionary by building houses faster than McDonald's serves burgers!

In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sits down with Oleg, co-founder of Cuby, who's cracked the code on industrial-scale homebuilding with mobile micro-factories that can pump out a 2,000 sq ft house every single day.

Key topics discussed:

Why construction is still stuck in the stone age (and how Cuby is dragging it into the future)

The mobile micro-factory concept: bringing manufacturing directly to construction sites

How they're producing homes at $100/sq ft with just 4-person assembly teams

The IKEA + Starbucks approach to standardized, quality housing

Why most construction tech startups fail (and what Cuby does differently)

400,000+ engineering hours invested in solving the "kit of parts" puzzle

Plans to deploy 200 factories across the US in the next 10 years

"If you solve the logistic problem, you will solve the construction problem. But one of the main problems is not easy just to solve the logistic problem. Because we are speaking not only related the logistic of materials. This is the logistic of tools. This is the logistic of information. This is the logistic of assembling." - Oleg

From lean manufacturing principles borrowed from Toyota to AI-powered quality control, discover how this team is industrializing an industry that hasn't changed since Jesus was a carpenter.