A home can be configured in a browser. Building it still takes people. Welcome Homes’ shift toward local builders reveals where the convenience ends and the real work begins.
A bathroom once came in a box. Now Block sells a way through the mess: clearer bids, vetted contractors, and payments that follow the work.
After six accelerator rejections, three pivots and one pandemic-timed launch, the Ukrainian-born Jome co-founder has a precise idea about AI: let it chase the cold leads, so people can handle the warm moments.
Isaac Baker and Ben Underwood built a solar company around the customers the industry finds too poor or too complicated. Nearly a decade in, the affordable-housing rooftops are paying them back.