Fortune's Path Podcast

Chris Boyd: Fintech and Incentivizing Hourly Workers

Episode Summary

What’s the best way to incentivize workers, especially in the construction industry? How do you bring technology to construction to improve outcomes for everybody? What’s it like building a technology product from scratch? Chris Boyd, former VP of product at Built Technologies, a Nashville unicorn, is now head of product for TrunkTools, an innovative construction fintech startup. Chris talks with Tom Noser of Fortune's Path about how TrunkTools has shown promise among early adopters who’ve generated measurable improvements in productivity and safety using the tool.

Episode Notes

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: