Dec 17 2024 75 mins
Fernando is the Founder and CEO of Leon Capital Group, a diversified holding company that operates assets in the real estate, financial services, healthcare, and technology industries. Leon takes the lead in conceiving, developing, owning, and operating businesses through a family-holding structure that oversees $10 billion of its own private assets.
We discuss:
- Social Systems Entrepreneurship
- The Supply Chain of Money
- Building Leon Capital Group
- The State of the Market
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:51) - Fernando’s career and background
(00:13:28) - The impact of Harvard
(00:19:48) - Lessons from Goldman Sachs - The Supply Chain of Money
(00:28:07) - Building credibility in a new city
(00:31:23) - Experiences in the GFC
(00:35:47) - Single Tenant Retail
(0:39:49) - Building out a team
(00:41:41) - Developing a formal growth strategy
(00:43:57) - Partnering with Ross Perot
(00:46:56) - The Healthcare thesis
(00:56:17) - How do you decide what industries to buy into?
(00:58:49) - Buying Crexi
(01:02:34) - What’s your plan for the next decade?
(01:04:33) - Investment Management
(01:07:36) - The state of the market
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