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Hey folks, my guest today is Eric Helzer.

He's a third generation builder and double gator from the University of Florida.

He's transformed construction with his expertise.

After impactful roles with Baker, Concrete, and Grycon, he founded sub-based to revolutionize

material procurement.

Under his leadership, the company streamlines

procurement, managing thousands of orders and millions in invoices. Eric, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yeah, Nathan. Appreciate it. I always love someone that is eating their own dog food. So you were in the

industry and said, this is the problem and I got to go fix it. What year was that? Yeah. So I actually

started in the industry in 2008 interning, went to college, and then graduated

to work in the subcontractor world in 2011, but really started to see in 2014 the shift

of the digitization at the GC level of how workflows are being transformed.

The problem that we saw for today really came about in 2020,

really post the COVID error where material management was in flux.

Pricing fluctuations were happening,

and that's where we really saw the opportunity to build software for subcontractors,

which is how sub-based turned into what it is today.

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