How Revit Was Built & Sold for $133M + Acelab with Dave Lemont | BIM Pure Live #094
Feb 28, 2025
👨🏻 Guest: Dave Lemont
📖 Topic: How Revit Was Built & Sold for $133M + Acelab
📅 Date: Wednesday, March 12th at 3 PM EST
🔗 Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/
Dave Lemont is the former CEO of Revit Technology Corporation. He was the head of the company when Revit 1.0 was released and when the company was acquired by Autodesk in 2002. Dave is now the chairman of Acelab, a platform to discover, find, save, and document architectural products.
In this episode, you'll learn the origin story of Revit. I want to ask Dave:
🚀How did Revit get started? What was the original vision?
🔄 What was Revit's game-changing feature?
⚡What were the biggest challenges to solve?
💰Selling to Autodesk: why Revit was acquired for $133M
💡 What is Acelab, and why get involved with the company?
Learn more about Acelab: https://acelabusa.com/
