🎙Building a $3B real estate hospitality investment platform with Carlos Rodriguez Jr. of Driftwood Capital

🎙Building a $3B real estate hospitality investment platform with Carlos Rodriguez Jr. of Driftwood Capital

Author: Michael Sidgmore February 8, 2024 Duration: 1:01:27

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.

On today’s episode, we travel around the world of hospitality investing. We talk with Carlos Rodriguez Jr., the Founder, President, and COO of Driftwood Capital, one of the US’s leading hospitality sponsors with over $3B in hospitality assets under management. They’ve found a way to do both the traditional things in real estate investing and development well and compliment that with an innovative strategy to bring over 1,200 accredited investors on their platform as they find ways to improve how sponsors can access deals and capital.

Carlos and I had a fascinating discussion about real estate and private markets. We covered:

* How hospitality investing was impacted by Covid and how Driftwood weathered the storm.

* Lessons learned from operating through Covid.

* Why location, location, location rings true in real estate investing.

* How the millennial traveler and work from home have impacted hospitality investing.

* The most surprising things in real estate investing over the past few years.

* How technology is impacting real estate investing.

Thanks Carlos for coming on the show to share your insights and wisdom about hospitality investing. We hope you enjoy.

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