Family Office Podcast: Billionaire & Centimillionaire Interviews & Investor Club Insights

Send us Fan Mail Private credit is one of the most talked-about asset classes in the family office world right now - but is the hype justified? In this panel discussion from the Single Family Office Summit, three family office principals share exactly where they stand on private credit in today's market - and the answers are more divided than you'd expect. One says it's nearly impossible to underwrite properly at current lending rates. Another is avoiding it entirely for cross-border capital....

Send us Fan Mail What do you actually learn after scaling and selling a major platform? In this episode, two investors who have done it give their most honest answers. The first says the single rule that has never failed him is this: if a co-investor won't put their own money in, he walks. Trust and aligned incentives aren't nice-to-haves. They're the entire filter. The second shares the structural lesson his institutional capital partner taught him during a major platform build: think about ...

Send us Fan Mail This CIO co-founded a housing-focused investment firm after scaling one of the largest single-family rental platforms in the country alongside a major institutional capital partner. The playbook hasn't changed: find fragmented, alternative residential asset classes where institutional-quality operations haven't yet arrived, and build the platform that gets them there. In this episode, he breaks down why student housing and senior housing are the firm's most active deployment ...

Send us Fan Mail This investor didn't start in energy. He started as a real estate borrower, learned the mechanics of private lending from the inside, and then made a deliberate decision to become the lender. Today, his firm deploys capital into residential real estate loans and has quietly built a portfolio of strategic energy investments - including a hydrogen technology company that has earned recognition from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and produced a Fulbri...

Send us Fan Mail We just had a billionaire keynote at our Capital Raising Bootcamp here in Dallas at the RSM offices. He has a couple of publicly traded companies and spent 40 years building his portfolio. Here are the notes I wanted to share from what he said on stage. Build a super diverse skill set. You have to be a decathlete to be successful raising capital, building a platform, and scaling something. Underwrite conservatively. If a deal does not make sense and you do not even know why -...

Send us Fan Mail This investor has spent decades doing one thing: buying right. From a 10,000-unit apartment portfolio sold to a major real estate buyer, to a pharmaceutical company purchased for $18M and exited at $358M, to two insurance companies flipped for significant returns - the track record is built on cash flow, not speculation. In this episode, he shares his full investment history and explains why today's market has made it nearly impossible to find the kinds of companies he used t...

Send us Fan Mail Fear paralyzed him on Bitcoin. A decade in prestigious law firms surrounded by smart, unhappy people showed him what success without purpose looks like. And a stranger in Home Depot delivered a message that changed the direction of his business. Otis Grigsby played 6 years in the NFL, practiced law at large firms for 6 years, and is now part-legal, part-growth, part-strategy at his wife's health tech marketing agency - and watching ChatGPT recommend their services to stranger...

Send us Fan Mail Most people think diversification means spreading your attention. Alvin calls it focused diversity - mastering one thing per day so that by Sunday, you have a full tool belt. That framework took him from the NFL and CFL to aerospace engineering to running operations on the M&A side, taking $10 million companies to $100 million valuations, while building a ground-up 4-unit multifamily development in Los Angeles. In this episode, Alvin Scioneaux, Jr. unpacks the three I's t...

Send us Fan Mail The closing segment of the last panel of the day — and one of the most honest. A family office investor argues that most people are walking past million-dollar opportunities every day: the car wash owner with no succession plan, the small hotel operator whose kids just want the cash. These businesses can be acquired without large amounts of capital if you bring the right non-cash currencies — experience, network, operational expertise. A second-gen family office investor clos...

Send us Fan Mail Four insights in one episode, each from a different voice. A second-gen family office investor says ego is the single biggest destroyer of wealth — it makes you miss small details, over-rely on past success, and walk into deals you should have walked away from. An audience member introduces private placement life insurance — a custom IRS-compliant policy structure that lets your family office hold alternative assets in a tax-deferred environment. A software investor explains ...

Send us Fan Mail Three rapid-fire insights that the room had not heard before. First: gross revenue royalty deals — a family office founder who has done 17 of them explains why investors love them, almost nobody uses them, and how a dental practice scaled to $30M in revenue returned the full initial investment through monthly cash flow royalties before the exit even happened. Second: deal terms are where most investors get quietly destroyed — preference shares and waterfall structures can lea...

Send us Fan Mail The most candid segment of the panel. A private investment banker says the most expensive mistake he made was not paying for expert legal counsel — and explains why a cheap lawyer costs more on the back end than a good one does upfront. A family office CFO cites his first private investment loss to make a principle: founders must have skin in the game and LP capital must come back first, always — the Richest Man in Babylon principle applied to modern private investing. A seri...