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Deako Put a $12 Backplate in the Wall - and Built a Smart-Home Beachhead in 350,000 Houses
Most smart-home companies sell gadgets one homeowner at a time. Deako persuaded builders to hide its upgrade path inside the wall - then made the humble light switch the front door to a much larger platform.
Will Duderstadt and the Useful Work of Making People Care
The M/I Homes CMO built his career where spreadsheets meet stories - learning that a buyer may forget the rate, but rarely forgets how a place feels.
K. Hovnanian® Homes
For 65 years the Hovnanian family has been putting keys in first-time buyers' hands and building 55-and-up communities where the lawn mows itself. Here is how a New Jersey homebuilder turned patience into a business model.
Beazer Homes
Beazer Homes is trying to make a volatile housing market feel less volatile - one lower utility bill, independently tested wall and competing mortgage quote at a time.
Foundation
Foundation is a buyer experience platform for homebuilders - often described as 'Shopify for Homebuilders.' It brings the shopping, purchasing, and owning of a newly built home online through white-labeled buyer apps, an operator control center, and warranty tooling, so builders can sell more homes more efficiently to happier customers. Founded in 2023 by former Opendoor operators, it went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch.