Chris Boyd: Fintech and Incentivizing Hourly Workers

Fortune's Path Podcast

English - October 17, 2023 19:45 - 54 minutes - 50 MB
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Tom talks with Chris Boyd, former VP of Product at Nashville unicorn Built Technologies and now head of product for Trunk Tools, a construction fintech startup. At Built and now at Trunk Tools, Chris is focused on solving the skilled labor shortage by enabling project leaders to increase workforce productivity, safety, and profitability by aligning incentives from top to bottom.

Chris joined the Fortune's Path podcast recently from Stanford University, where he was attending a venture capital workshop for promising early stage businesses, to touch on a variety of issues like:

What’s the best way to incentivize workers? How does Trunk Tools provide immediate financial benefits to them?How do you bring technology to construction and improve outcomes for everybody?What is it like to build a technology company from scratch?