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money mazepodcast.com. Thank you. So we all know the power of real estate and some people

never leave a successful silo when they have established their sort of footprint in there, but you start to go

wider. So let's just talk about what happens next, both in terms of the motivation and the

execution. Well, what we started understanding was that, you know, if you have a competitive

advantage and you have a great team and you have a vision, that opportunities

will come your way.

And it came to a form where we got a bit wide and shallow.

And over the last three years, we've kind of reeled it back in.

And A-Rod Corp essentially is a holding company, miniature Berkshire Hathaway, obviously much, much smaller and private, not public.

And it has a collection of companies in there that we own stakes in.

We do two things.

We do real estate and we do venture private equity investing.

And within the real estate, there's an entire ecosystem and fully integrated from construction

company to over 9,000 single family homes, to about 8,500 multi-family apartments, to hotels.

And on the venture side, we own parts of 30 companies. We've taken a handful of them

public. And essentially, that's what we do. And I think in moments like we have today, which the

capital markets have dried up some, interest rates have gone up, things are very fluid. It's always, and the

voice for me to our team is let's really focus on the two things we do best. That's sports,

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