Navigating Financial Partnerships and Market Opportunities

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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Links

Leon Capital Group

Fernando on LinkedIn

Topics

(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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