- Crypto investing, Real Estate Investing, and the Creation of capital Investment Funds with Joe Robert Alex Escobar and Aziz Yousuf 42:57
Joseph Robert is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Robert Ventures, with over 20 years of asset management experience. Over the past 10 years, Joe was CEO of Silver Bay Capital, a real estate asset management company that invested in over 200 residential and commercial properties, and over 165mm AUM of residential mortgages, creating double-digit predictable returns.
Joe and his partner resided in Puerto Rico for business tax advantages under Act 22. During this period, he connected with numerous professionals within the blockchain community and industry. These relationships prompted him to start investing in cryptocurrencies in 2017. Since then, Joe has invested in seed rounds with equity and tokens, along with a portfolio of bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.
Through these investments, Joe has developed a reliable strategy and the requisite discipline to manage and profit from even the most volatile tokens. Joe and his team utilize qualitative research, data analytics, and on-chain data for optimal portfolio management. His knowledge and expertise have helped him create a proprietary model for analyzing key factors when entering positions in projects
[00:19 – 06:55] Screw the stock market: These 4 strategies will help you build wealth outside of the market
- Joe Robert started by snow shoveling around the neighborhoods as younger teenager landscaping lawns in high school and then Moving into construction work after graduating high school.
- He acquired his first property at the age of 19 and sold it two years later.
- The real estate market crashed in 2007 and Joe Robert stopped investing for a period of time while he reorganized everything.
[06:55 – 13:27] How to Purchase a Loan: A Guide for Beginners
- Joe Shares depending on your buyer level and how much capital you have to deploy.
- If you’re a buyer you may have 6 figures and you would have an existing fund that has that inventory
- Your fund either is bought from another or bought directly from the bank.
[13:27 – 21:08] How to Avoid the Hype and Losses of the Crypto Market
- You could raise capital yourself and go out and do an offering and network
- Depends on where you want to focus in your business and how you wanna allocate resources, sometimes just focusing on getting those deals might be what you’re better, at operationally.
- Getting a capital partner, and paying a premium can be a better way of going about it than doing a fund yourself and having to worry about covering everything.
[21:08 – 28:04] Crypto is in a gutter, but it’s still an opportunity to find value
- In early 2018, Joe started investing in startups and ICOs,
- He quickly realized that this was not a good decision and began to lose money.
- Four and a half years later, Joe has returned to the US and is managing a portfolio of crypto.
- The market has crashed recently, and Bitcoin is having a less severe drawdown than other assets.
- Joe believes that the market will rebound in the next few months, and that interest rates will rise again.
[28:04 – 35:00] It’s Too Big to Fail: In the Long Run Depending on the type of Crypto
- The difference between speculation and investing is that the probability of your outcome is much greater when having a benchmark to investing versus speculating,
- When you are less unknown about what that outcome you might be speculating more and the risk is higher
- Real estate and other assets such as crypto are liquid and illiquid investments.
- He adds that it messes up your emotions
[35:00 – 41:39] Why Technology is Likely to Outperform Bonds and Real Estate Over the Next Decade
- Tokenizing real estate can provide benefits or drawbacks depending on the situation.
- Airbnb is an example of a company that has tokenized its shares, and the benefits or drawbacks of this process depend on the individual.
- Web three is a concept that refers to owning anything you post on the internet.
- Joe has a lot of experience in the stock market and real estate, and he is able to share this with the listeners on this podcast.
[41:40 – 42:56] Closing Segment
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“Everything has some aspect of speculation. Now there are different probabilities and different risk metrics, depending on how you allocate that to assets. So the difference in speculation investing is the probability of your outcome. Is much greater, if you want to benchmark that to investing versus speculating, When you are less unknown about what that outcome, you’re probably speculating more and, that risk is going up a lot higher.” – Joe Robert
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