The Hard Part with Evan McCann Bertrand Nembot from Billdr
Bertrand Nembot is the Co-Founder & CEO of Billdr. Billdr is a vertically integrated home renovation marketplace operating in Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago. They facilitate renovation projects by providing turnkey solutions for homeowners supported by a digital back-office platform for general contractors. Their mission is to make home renovation simple, transparent, and efficient for everyone.
In this episode, we discuss...
- Bert's first foray into renovations
- launching Uber in Uganda in 3 weeks
- existing challenges that homeowners and general contractors had with the renovation process
- how Billdr increases general contractors' win rates
- building an operating system/back office for general contractors
- launching a managed marketplace in new markets like Toronto and Chicago
- pivoting from a managed marketplace to a B2B offering
- why he prefers croissants to bagels
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