Billionaire Founder: MASTERCLASS on starting a construction company from scratch!

Junior Davis could have run his construction company from an office. Instead he started when his crews started and quit when they quit — for forty years. Today Jr. Davis Construction Company runs more than 1,500 people across Central Florida, and he says the culture is the only reason. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most construction owners say culture matters. Almost none can tell you what they actually did to build one. In this chapter, Chris Coghlan sits down with Junior Davis — founder of Jr. Davis Construction Company — for the clearest answer we've heard. Junior lays out the standard he set by simply being there: showing up before his crews and leaving after them, never cutting a corner on the work, and choosing quality over margin every time. He explains why his people outrank his equipment and his technology, why every man on the job from the lowest level to the highest is treated as equal, and why his son Steve now runs operations while Junior kept the culture for himself. Then the part nobody expects. After 9/11, Junior prayed with his team at a 6am payroll meeting for the first time in his life. Men jumped off bulldozers to thank him. That one morning turned into a Thanksgiving service, then an Easter sunrise service, then baptisms in the equipment shop with the broke-down machines pushed aside and the floor washed. It started with 50 people. Last Easter it was 400. He finishes on his son, on why titles earn a leader nothing and respect has to be built with your own hands, and on what still makes him choke up about the people who work for him. If you run crews, own a construction company, or you're trying to build something people don't want to leave — this is the one to watch. ▶ Watch every episode on The Contractor's Playbook | Built2Win:    / @thecontractorsplaybook-b2w   🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss the next builder's story. New episodes every two weeks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT THIS EPISODE ANSWERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ How do you actually build a culture instead of talking about one? Why can't you preach culture two or three days a week? What happens to a company when everything changes overnight? How do you hand a company to your son without handing him respect? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POWERED BY OUR SPONSORS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ring Power | Florida's Cat® Equipment Dealer ▶ https://linktw.in/pTVmkD Big League Construction Supply ▶ https://linktw.in/NIMVjE Johnson & Company | Commercial Insurance & Bonding ▶ https://linktw.in/HsgrSt #ad ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE GUEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Junior Davis is the founder and CEO of Jr. Davis Construction Company, a Kissimmee, Florida heavy highway and roadway contractor with more than 1,500 employees. The company self-performs large earthwork, dewatering, roadway and site development work across Central Florida for FDOT, municipalities and developers. His son Steve Davis now leads operations; Junior still owns business development, estimating, and the culture. Website ▶ https://jr-davis.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LISTEN ON THE GO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/033jIVt... Apple Podcasts ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT BUILT2WIN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built2Win is where the ones who build the world come to think bigger, lead better, and win at a higher level — long-form conversations on leadership, construction, and building something that lasts. Hosted by Chris Coghlan. Connect with us: Instagram ▶   / thecontractorsplaybook_b2w   LinkedIn ▶   / the-contractors-playbook-built2win   TikTok ▶   / contractorsplaybook_b2w   Facebook ▶ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... All links ▶ https://linktr.ee/TheContractorsPlayb... Website ▶ https://chriscogs.com #Built2Win #TheContractorsPlaybook #Construction #ConstructionLeadership #Contractors #FamilyBusiness #CompanyCulture #HeavyCivil #Florida