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MASTER

BUILDER

Tooey Courtemanche has
crafted one of tech’s biggest
secrets in Procore, a multi-

billion-dollar app bringing
the world’s construction
projects onto the cloud.

BY ALEX KONRAD

n a quiet street in Montecito, Cal-
ifornia, a suburb of Santa Barba-
ra, Procore CEO Craig “Tooey”
Courte manche is considering how
best to break into his own house.
It was amid the frustration of ren-
ovating this Spanish-modern-style
three-bedroom 18 years ago that he
built a simple app to track comings
and goings of workers onsite. Now
he’s using the app to redo the house
Oagain, this time to befit the CEO of
one of tech’s fastest-growing companies. The app, called
Procore, is the most popular piece of software in the $1
trillion U.S. construction industry, used on hundreds of
thousands of projects from sports stadiums to high-ris- ETHAN PINES FOR FORBES
es. Sales are approaching $200 million, good for fifth place
on the 2018 Forbes Cloud 100 list. But on this dusty July

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