With her co-founders Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee, Antoine Hersen, and Kenny Stone, PlanGrid was born in 2011 with the aim of tackling the bewildering array of messages, plans and paperwork blowing around building sites. The Apple iPad, released in the same year, gave PlanGrid the perfect canvas.
The company, like the iPad itself, became quickly established as an intuitive collaboration and productivity platform. Today, PlanGrid saves users an average of 7 hours a week, translating to approximately $15,000 in savings on labour costs per person per year.
A role model
As chief executive of PlanGrid, Young takes her role seriously as an example to other women and has worked hard to create a work environment that fosters creativity, productivity and diversity.
“This world needs more female engineers, founders and executives,” she says. “If I can be a good example to the next generation, that's awesome.”
As a result she contributed to the Women in Construction conference. “With 200 people attending in the first year, it was a sign that this was a positive step in encouraging more women to explore a career in construction,” she says.
Young stresses that work-life balance is a priority for all her employees. Listening to employee needs has seen PlanGrid change location four times in the past few years to ease long commutes in a notoriously congested and expensive region.
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