Who’s got the dirt? Thanks to Soil Connect, now contractors who need to get it or get rid of it can find each other at the touch of a finger.
与约会应用程序，Craigslist或Airbnb类似，土壤连接匹配建筑商，承包商，园林园和其他行业专业人员，因此他们可以安排需要它的人与想要摆脱它的人之间的土壤交通和管理。传统上，建筑界不得不依靠口碑及其既定的网络来促进这些地球的交流。
这家初创公司的创始人兼首席执行官Cliff Fetner在三年前在纽约市的一个家庭建设项目中构思了这个想法。他回忆说：“那是冬季中期，现场有3,000码的污垢。”“基金会的家伙在对我大喊大叫，因为他无法在洞附近的任何地方拿到设备。我打电话给发掘承包商。他说他打电话给他认识的每个人，不知道该怎么办。在那一刻，我意识到必须有一种更好的方法来重新填充污垢。”
Fetner和他精通技术的儿子聘请了软件开发人员来创建Beta版本。用户节省了几天的时间，几吨的电话和多达数千美元的发现或摆脱土壤。Fetner说，随着投资者和用户的挖掘，土壤Connect在2020年筹集了350万美元。该应用程序在6月份达到了1亿立方米的材料中的里程碑。应用程序用户还可以交换聚集体，岩石，可回收混凝土和沥青，玻璃，堆肥和覆盖物。该团队正在制定电子票明确计划，以便拖运材料的卡车司机不必处理纸质票或在现场离开车辆。
“We want to be a one-stop shop for all your dirt needs,” says Fetner, a third-generation builder and developer who marveled that throughout his career, he had not seen any solutions other than calling around. “I love Airbnb, Craigslist,” he says. “I didn’t reinvent the wheel. I dressed it up and inserted dirt on a platform.”
Wills Hapworth, general partner with TIA Ventures, a venture capital firm that backed Soil Connect, praises Fetner’s business savvy and contracting background. “Cliff possesses a very rare, and essential, quality as the founder of an early-stage company—the ability to listen and then act on what he hears,” says Hapworth. “It seems obvious, but too many founders think they have things all figured out themselves and operate in their own echo chambers. Cliff’s ability is especially rare for a business leader who has already had tremendous success in his career. We view this trait as one of his greatest assets, which serves him incredibly well as he turns Soil Connect into the de facto brand in the industry for solving all dirt-related problems.”
Hapworth指的是已经成长为八个的土壤连接团队，他补充说：“ Cliff为将专业人士带入了知道如何为业务的关键功能提供比以往任何时候都能更好的关键功能的团队的价值，这使他释放了他专注于他擅长的事情。”
