In this episode, I’m speaking with Codie Sanchez. Codie is Managing Director and Partner at Entourage Effect Capital, a private equity firm focused on the legal cannabis industry. Since 2014, EEC has deployed $100+ million into over 65 companies. Before that, she built out Vanguard’s ETF business and led global teams at Goldman Sachs, SSGA, and First Trust.
Codie is also the author of the Contrarian Thinking Newsletter, where she hits on how to make diversified income through side hustles, investing, and startup building. She’s appeared on CNBC, Fox, and CNN, written for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Fortune, and spoken to tens of thousands of people. She believes that understanding money leads to power, and that capitalism, commerce, and cannabis are incredible forces for societal, monetary, and regulatory change.
Today, Codie joins the podcast to share why she walked away from conflict journalism to focus on finance, the powerful ripple effects of her work, and how she uses money to advocate for the people she cares about most.
Key Takeaways
- How a deep understanding of finance can make someone a better activist.
- How working for powerhouse Wall Street institutions helped Codie create her alternative investing philosophy.
- Why contrarian investing isn’t about beating algorithms and hedge fund managers.
- The signs that an emerging or alternative market has real growth potential - and how to mitigate risks along the way.
- Codie’s unique strategy for structuring deals and scaling businesses.
- The huge mistakes Codie made early on in her career as an investor.
- Why everyone has a moral imperative to understand tax law and how to learn.
- How great talent can help you execute complex strategies, survive economic downturns, and save huge sums of money.
- Why everything in life is negotiable.
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