#373 - Fernando De Leon - Founder & CEO @ Leon Capital Group

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

Links
Leon Capital Group - www.leoncapitalgroup.com/
Fernando on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-de-leon/

Topics:
00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Fernando’s career and background
11:22 - The impact of Harvard
17:39 - Lessons from Goldman Sachs - The Supply Chain of Money
26:21 - Building credibility in a new city
30:03 - Experiences in the GFC
34:40 - Single Tenant Retail
38:57 - Building out a team
40:56 - Developing a formal growth strategy
43:15 - Partnering with Ross Perot
46:24 - The Healthcare thesis
56:39 - How do you decide what industries to buy into?
59:22 - Buying Crexi
01:03:24 - What’s your plan for the next decade?
01:05:28 - Investment Management
01:08:35 - The state of the market

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