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The Project Economy finally has its own masterclass platform.
What is Foundamental University?
Foundamental University is a free, on-demand masterclass platform for anyone building, leading, or investing in the project economy. It's designed for founders scaling construction tech companies, operators managing teams across markets, and talent looking to understand how the most important companies in construction, infrastructure, and building materials actually get built.
Season 1 features 13 long-form video masterclasses. Each one is a single leader walking through one defining challenge in depth: how they thought about it, what they decided, and what happened. No panels, no moderated Q&As. Just the person who lived it, on camera, for about an hour.
All masterclasses are free to watch at university.foundamental.com.
Who Are the Season 1 Guests?
The Season 1 lineup brings together some of the most accomplished founders and business leaders across the global built environment.
Founders & Operators
Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO of OpenSpace
Jeevan built OpenSpace around the idea that construction needs an image-first way of working. His masterclass covers how to build technology for an industry that doesn't work behind screens, why most construction tech fails because it adds work instead of removing it, and what happens when a superintendent uses your product to avoid a $50,000 change order in ten minutes.
Scott Wolfe, ex-CEO of Levelset
Scott spent over a decade in construction and built Levelset around one of the industry's most overlooked problems: getting paid. His masterclass is a deep dive into construction payment infrastructure, power imbalances in the supply chain, and what it looks like to build a mission-driven company through three distinct founding phases.
Dustin DeVan, CEO of Ediphi
Dustin is one of the few founders in construction tech who has done it twice. His masterclass covers founder conviction, the emotional reality of building without a co-founder, why his first product completely missed the mark, and what separates a first-time founder from a second-time founder.
Florian Biller, CEO of Capmo
Florian built Capmo by staying obsessively close to the construction site. His masterclass covers why domain understanding is non-negotiable in construction software, why his first prototype was a PowerPoint, and how Capmo built voice input for site managers who document their day while walking.
Sander van de Rijdt, Co-CEO of PlanRadar
Sander looked at how construction teams documented their work and couldn't believe no proper solution existed. His masterclass covers how to spot an opportunity that looks too obvious to be real, what founder-led sales looks like in construction, and how to sell software to an industry that wasn't asking for it.
David McGavran, CEO of Maxon
David never planned to become a CEO. He spent years as a programmer at Adobe before taking over Maxon, the company behind Cinema 4D and Redshift. His masterclass covers the gap between building great technology and running a great company, and why physically watching your users work beats any survey.
Dimitrie Stefanescu, CEO of Speckle
Dimitrie built Speckle as an open-source data platform for AEC, starting as a side project at UCL London. His masterclass covers how to build an open-source company in a closed-source industry, how community-led growth turned into enterprise deals, and the uncomfortable truth about monetizing something you gave away for free.
Business Leaders
Matthias Tauber, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG
Matthias leads BCG across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and built BCG's building materials and construction practice from the ground up. His masterclass is a practical leadership playbook: why leadership is craftsmanship, how he hired his first team around three non-negotiables, and why managing energy is the most underestimated part of leading at scale.
Dr. Dominik von Achten, CEO of Heidelberg Materials
Dominik leads one of the world's largest construction materials companies. His masterclass covers what it takes to drive transformation inside a global industrial organization, why big innovation projects need allies and years of persistence, and the difference between giving advice and actually getting things done.
Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck, Co-CEO of Goldbeck
Goldbeck is a family business and one of Europe's largest integrated design-build-operate companies. Hendrik's masterclass covers what productized construction looks like at scale, why international expansion can't be copy-pasted, and his "elephant on the mountaintop" principle for connecting bold long-term vision to daily execution.
Andreas Hettich, Family Shareholder of Hettich Group
Hettich is a fourth-generation family company with over 130 years of history, €1.4 billion in turnover, and 18 production sites in 8 countries. Andreas's masterclass covers what it means to scale a family business across generations and continents, why values don't transfer automatically when you expand internationally, and how in-house academies keep the company's DNA alive.
David Rockhill, Global Head of Advisory at Arcadis
David's career spans over 20 years in the built environment, from engineering to consulting to global advisory at Arcadis, one of the world's largest built environment consultancies. His masterclass covers why clients care about output not method, why he brought an illustrator into engineering work, and why knowing what gives you energy is the most underrated leadership skill.
Shubhankar Bhattacharya, General Partner at Foundamental
Shub's masterclass is different from the others. It's an investor case study about how he first encountered InfraMarket, one of the most remarkable companies in building materials, and what the journey taught him about recognizing exceptional founders. His core lesson: stop listening to slogans, start looking at numbers.
What Topics Do the Masterclasses Cover?
Across the 13 masterclasses, Season 1 covers a wide range of topics relevant to anyone working in construction, infrastructure, and the broader project economy:
- Leadership at scale in construction and industrial companies
- Building and scaling construction technology companies
- Construction payment infrastructure and supply chain dynamics
- Market entry and international expansion in AEC
- Product development for field-based industries
- Open-source software and community building in AEC
- Family business succession and long-term company building
- Hiring, team building, and culture in high-growth environments
- Digital transformation in traditional industries
- Industrialized and productized construction
- Investor decision-making in the project economy
Who is Foundamental University For?
Foundamental University is built for three audiences:
Founders building companies in construction, infrastructure, building materials, and related sectors. The masterclasses offer real playbooks from people who have scaled in these exact markets.
Operators and leaders managing teams, entering new markets, or driving transformation inside established organizations. The business leader masterclasses cover leadership, culture, and execution at scale.
Talent and the next generation entering the project economy. The platform provides access to the kind of knowledge that was previously only available through personal networks and private conversations.
How to Watch
All 13 masterclasses are available for free at Foundamental University. No paywall, no sign-up required. Each session runs approximately one hour and is available on-demand.