Build Better with Matt Vetter

Build Better is the podcast for operators running real construction and development businesses. Hosted by Matt Vetter, President and CEO of Schafer Construction, the show covers what actually moves the needle: leadership, accountability, hiring, scaling, and decision-making under pressure.No consultants. No theory. No fake-inspirational fluff. Real conversations with the owners, developers, and leaders building America's commercial and industrial projects.If you run a construction company or care about how high-stakes businesses get built - you're in the right place.

Build Better with Matt Vetter is a business podcast hosted by Matt Vetter, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Matt Vetter hosts Build Better with Matt Vetter, a business show with 28 episodes published.

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  Episode #28

  Episode 28: • The Building You Did Not Build Is the Most Expensive One You Own

  Sep 10, 202611 minS1

  Waiting for construction costs to come back down is themost expensive decision an owner can make. Labor is a demographic problem, not a cyclical one. A market correction will never unretire someone. Materials spike and then set a new floor, and that floor becomes the new normal about four years later. And the cost around the building,entitlement, permitting, third party review, insurance, has roughly doubled the timeline that used to get an owner from zero to boots on the ground. The part nobody counts is not on the invoice. It is the years of use, the rent, the capacity, the hires, and the revenue you never got out of a building that does not exist.

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  Episode #27

  Episode 27: You Don't Have a Board. You Have An Audience.

  Sep 3, 202616 minS1

  Eight construction company owners. None of them work for me. None of them can fire me. All of them have seen my financials. Next week I fly to Denver to spend three days in a room with my board of advisors. In this episode: what a board of advisors actually is and what it is not, the three reasons most owners never build one, the three seats every board needs, and the stuff I am walking in carrying. If everyone on your board agrees with you, you do not have a board. You have an audience. Build Better with Matt Vetter. New episodes every Thursday.

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  Episode #51

  Episode 26: Hiring Interns Is Not Helping the Industry

  Aug 27, 202614 minS1

  Tomorrow I write a check for $20,000 to the Southeast Michigan Construction Academy, to be cut up into scholarships for people entering trade school. I do not know yet where it lands. I am fine with that. This one is about the difference between funding the tradesand recruiting for yourself, what it actually cost to build the Build Better Foundation into a real 501(c)(3), and why more than 90 percent of the people we write checks to will never work for me. Build Better Foundation:schaferconstruction.net/build-better-foundation

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  Episode #25

  Episode 25: The Bill Came 12 Months Later

  Aug 20, 202613 minS1

  Twelve months before I lost my temper on a phone call, I made the decision that actually caused the problem. A hire made out of desperation. A client who was a bulldog, and I knew it before I signed. A year spent as a pressure relief valve instead of running my company. The explosion took five minutes. The mistake underneath it took twelve monthsand cost a good man his job. Propping somebody up in the wrong seat is not kindness. It is delay, and it gets paid in their time.

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  Episode #24

  Episode 24: You Do Not Have a Time Problem: Bill Reiman on Building a Team That Buys It Back

  Aug 13, 202648 minS1

  Bill Reiman did not inherit RK Reiman Construction. He earned it, over roughly twenty years, and he and his brother onlybecame owners three years ago. In this episode he walks through the whole arc: growing up in his father's concrete yard outside Chicago, the family's move to Southwest Florida in 1995, the years as an underpaid laborer, the one conversation with his dad that redirected his entire life, and what it takes to run a luxury home building company, a realestate practice with SERHANT, a property management business, a media operation, and a podcast at the same time. He also makes a case against the way most people talk about work-life balance, explains why being too honest has cost him listings, and tells the story of the out-of-state superintendent who found the company through the podcast. In the last stretch the roles reverse and Bill gives some direct advice on when to stop doing your own media and start paying someone else to.

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