The First Trillionaire + The Government Killed The Smartest AI, Mortgages Hit 6.5% & How To Find Investors | Ep. 33

Send us Fan MailSpaceX goes public in the biggest IPO anyone can remember, Elon Musk crosses a trillion dollars on paper, and investor group chats light up with the kind of FOMO that makes a steady 8–10% real estate deal feel “slow.” Then the plot flips: Anthropic ships its smartest models and, three days later, the US government orders a worldwide shutdown. If you raise capital, manage a fund, or run investor relations, those aren’t random headlines. They’re a warning label about liquidity, trust, and single-vendor risk.We walk through what these shocks mean for real estate investing in a higher-for-longer world where mortgage rates track the 10-year and geopolitics can add a war premium to every underwrite. We also dig into the proposed Department of Labor safe harbor that could open the door for 401k investors to access alternative assets like private equity and private real estate funds. The real opportunity is not the headline, it’s being positioned early with clean reporting, real numbers, and a compliance story a fiduciary can stand behind.Then we get extremely practical: our seven-step system for finding and landing investors. We cover how to pick a single investor avatar, where to find accredited investors, how to run a simple funnel, and how to stay on the right side of 506(b) versus 506(c). We give you outreach language that opens doors without sounding pitchy, the qualification questions that save you months, and the follow-up cadence where most raises are won or lost. The bigger takeaway: use AI automation for the reps, but keep the relationship human, because trust is the only edge that doesn’t get commoditized.Subscribe for more tactical capital raising strategies, share this with a fund manager friend, and leave a quick review so we can bring you better guests and sharper playbooks. What’s the biggest bottleneck in your raise right now: finding leads, follow-up, or closing?Get the Free Capital Raising CourseGet Fund Flow OsJoin the Free Capital Raising CommunityApply to the Founder's CircleFollow me on instagramConnect with me on Linkedin