Welcome to the GRIDIVERSE 🪐
Hey Income Flippers,
I just landed in New York and checked into The Dominick in Manhattan and so far "me likey."
I have been working hard on a new project.
I'm in NY to moderate a panel titled, "Strategies for Start-up Success: Attracting Investment Capital."
This is a first for me because I will be moderating a panel of tech start-ups.
It's pushing me outside of my area of expertise but I figure "Why not? I want to learn how to attract investment capital."
Truthfully, I have a little seed in my heart that one day I will build a tech platform that connects our entire GRID Community (aka the GRIDiverse) in a more meaningful way.
So, if you are an angel investor in the tech start-up world looking to invest in a ridiculously awesome community like GRID, hit me up! 😉
So how does a real estate guy end up moderating a tech panel?
I have the honor of serving on the national board for NAHREP and several years ago they launched a 100 million dollar fund called Latitude Ventures.
Latitude Ventures invests in early-stage innovative companies primarily owned by U.S. Latinos and because I'm an active investor, and serve on the NAHREP Board, (a badass board by the way), I was provided the opportunity to moderate.
In other news...
Yesterday was day 1 in our new office space and we got to host our GRID Community event in our new diggs!
Unfortunately, I wasn't there but Bex the professor held down the fort along with Mike Webber (aka Webster).
GRID CAZA Reston
Meanwhile...I'm enjoying a delicious dinner in Manhattan feeling a sense of pride watching my young leaders grow as they take territory.
Gratitude time.
Let me take a moment to brag about CAZA for a second.
Last year was hard, there was a ton of change and our production dropped significantly but we pivoted, dug deep, worked hard, and kept moving FORWARD!
As I reviewed the numbers today in our team meeting, my operations director made me aware that we just had our best January ever and it appears that February will also be a record month.
I also want to give a special shout-out to my Director of Operations, Emily, and our entire operations team, they have been hard at work moving our entire organization over to the GAIN Network brokered by eXp.
⭐️ 25+ licenses
⭐️ All new marketing materials
⭐️ New office
⭐️ And the 1000 little details that I didn't have to worry about that they took care of.
You have all been AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
It's been a team effort and I just got this cool text (at 9:34 pm) from one of our rising stars—Rashid Mohamed.
It takes a partnership to build anything worthwhile and I feel blessed to be in partnership with some incredible people.
So here are the lessons from this week's newsletter:
1) Open yourself up to doing something new. You never know where it will lead you.
2) Build a great team and let them lead.
3) Create an environment that allows others to shine.
Always Forward,
Rob
PS: Check out our latest podcast episode, Building Wealth From The Texas Real Estate Market with Victor Steffen.
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