How to Launch a Cohort of Five to Seven People

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#278 - Moses Kagan & Rhett Bennett - Co-Founders of ReSeed Partners - Building the Y-Combinator for Real Estate Operators

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How to Launch a Cohort of Five to Seven People

I think you can define it in a couple of different ways, quantitative and qualitative. I think the easy math would be to say it's somewhere between $5 and $20 million transactions. But obviously that's drawing black and white lines that don't really exist. In other words, if it turns out that one or more of them have a strategy and a pipeline that starts to produce larger deals like Zaima Gizant and Yiddish is like, go in good health. We'll do those.

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Moses Kagan is co-founder and partner at Adaptive Realty, a Los Angeles-based real estate development and property management company with $200MM in AUM and more than 1,000 apartments under management. He is also a co-founder of Re-convene, a real estate private equity un-conference, and ReSeed, which provides mentorship and capital to early-career operators.

Rhett leads ReSeed's strategic direction and daily operations. He most recently served as Co-Managing Partner at Minot Capital, LP, where he led real estate investing. Previously, Rhett was President and Director of Research at Stillwater, a long-short hedge fund, and Chief Investment Officer at Arlington Family Offices. Rhett received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University with a double major in Business Economics and History.

On this episode, Chris, Moses and Rhett discuss:

➡️ How ReSeed works

➡️ What ReSeed is looking for in Partners

➡️ How ReSeed empowers Operators to build their own companies

➡️ What success looks like for Operators working with ReSeed

➡️ Thoughts on the state of the Real Estate Market

Chapters

(00:03:31) - Rhett’s career

(00:04:26) - Moses’ evolution in thinking over the past 5 year

(00:06:40) - Launching ReSeed Partners

(00:19:05) - Defining Subinstitutional

(00:20:58) - Cohort #1