These smart home-ready dwellings start at $58,000 As a serial startup founder and former Amazon manager focused on the company?s physical retail spaces, Aaron Holm was used to seeing technology solve problems. But when he began experiencing the holdups and delays that came with building stores, and connecting some of the issues he was seeing on the street in Seattle, such as homelessness and housing affordability, with the old-school approach of much of the construction industry, he began to see a new problem that needed a tech-savvy approach.
The inspiration led Holm to found Blokable, a company that manufactures a high-tech, customizable housing unit to order, last year. Inspired by seeing individuals and DIYers renovate and redesign shipping containers, he thought there was a market for a ?beautifully designed, safe, and software enabled building? that was affordable and ready to order.
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Holm says the company aims to strategically tackle the big issues facing the housing market. In a larger sense, there needs to be a broader conversation going on about how to use land, what kind of housing is needed, and what gets built, considering constraints around space and labor. With homelessness and affordability such huge issues in cities across the country, it only makes sense to apply a different mindset to building homes, instead of what he calls ?trickle-down housing? built in a top-down manner.
?There?s no way the current way we?re buildin...