"Building owners need a lot more than what siloed systems are capable of. Smart building solutions need to solve that problem by integrating with those systems, and in the next phases, adopting more of a horizontal architecture where building owners are not buying all of these redundant layers anymore from a bunch of different vendors. But if we're all speaking from different sheets of music, we're never going have that infrastructure and we're never going to be able to do these more sophisticated things with our buildings."

—James Dice

My Highlights

• Rosy's introduction (3:30)
• Rosy on Shark Tank! (4:40)
• Rosy getting hooked on smart buildings (7:42)
• Nexus' Partner Program and why it's innovative (12:27)
• Rosy's fun rapid-fire for James (20:58)
• James' rapid-fire questions for Rosy (26:30)
• What led James into the smart buildings industry (31:12)
• How James came up with the idea of Nexus (43:12)
• Early days of Nexus vs now (46:04)
• Why Nexus is special (53:45)
• The Nexus perspective on the state of the industry (1:00:55)
• Conference critiques (1:08:25)
• The Nexus' Creator Program (1:14:00)
• Nexus in 2023 (1:20:51)
• Carveouts (1:24:55)

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