[2][1] In 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company was launched as FaucetDirect by Christian Friedland and David Boctor, former classmates at California State University, Chico.

[4] He turned down venture capital and instead sold the company to Ferguson plc, then called Wolseley UK, for $35 million.

[4] Woseley bought the Build.com domain name from David Berman and rebranded the company as Build.com in April 2010.

[5] In late 2016, Christian Friedland left Build to focus full time on Power for Puerto Rico, a nonprofit organization raising money to buy generators for those devastated by Hurricane Maria earlier that year.

Post pandemic the office remains mostly empty with the primary workforce based out of Atlanta Georgia and Newport News Virginia.