Shub Bhattacharya brings an unusual combination of hands-on engineering experience designing oil and gas plants in the Middle East, plus his own failed e-commerce startup experience, to his venture investing at Foundamental—giving him deep firsthand knowledge of both complex project execution and founder mistakes. He co-hosts the "Practical Nerds" podcast where he shares detailed, no-spin investment theses on construction and infrastructure tech, and has a contrarian view that durable value in construction AI will come from data infrastructure and systems of record rather than thin AI-only applications.