In this episode of Coffee With a Founder, BAM CEO Beck Bamberger sits down with Alex Toporek, co-founder and CEO of Rebuild, an AI-powered platform helping restoration contractors create faster, more accurate insurance estimates.
Alex shares how a challenge inside his father’s restoration business inspired Rebuild—and how the platform reduced estimate turnaround time from 14 days to 14 hours while increasing estimate values by as much as 8%.
He also explains how he validated the market at an industry trade show, transitioned from venture studio and VC work to becoming a founder, and discovered greater fulfillment in building something personally meaningful.
Together, they explore New York City’s technology community, creating a flexible in-person office culture, hiring deliberately, and why founders should pursue problems they genuinely believe in solving.