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Incremental wins compound. Herculean change almost never happens. Guest: Bryan Perkins, founder and CEO of Novaria Group. Link to episode (# 415) https://youtu.be/jDRfElheTFw

In this episode, Chris sits down with Bryan Perkins, Founder & CEO of Novaria Group, a Fort Worth-based aerospace manufacturer he started in 2011 and sold to Arcline last November for $2.2 billion. Bryan didn't set out to be in aerospace. He needed a job. But once he was in,…

In this episode, Chris sits down with Bryan Perkins, Founder & CEO of Novaria Group, a Fort Worth-based aerospace manufacturer he started in 2011 and sold to Arcline last November for $2.2 billion. Bryan didn't set out to be in aerospace. He needed a job. But once he was in,…

How the pandemic pulled this North Texas market forward by a decade - and what it looked like when the big box stores finally decided there were enough rooftops to show up. Guest: Rex Glendenning, founder and CEO of REX Realty. Link to episode (# 414) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvh8G60Go50

Why DFW Airport is one of the top reasons large companies keep relocating here - including Goldman Sachs' new 5,000-employee headquarters fifteen minutes away. Guest: Rex Glendenning, founder and CEO of REX Realty. Link to episode (# 414) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvh8G60Go50

How a 60-day land deal landed the Dallas Cowboys in Frisco - and locked in over $130M in public incentives. Guest: Rex Glendenning, founder and CEO of REX Realty. Link to episode (# 414) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvh8G60Go50

Why DFW will overtake New York as the financial capital of the United States - and the geographic reason it's already happening. Guest: Rex Glendenning, founder and CEO of REX Realty. Link to episode (# 414) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvh8G60Go50

A 14-year real estate cycle is overdue for a break - 2026 and 2027 are going to be rough before the market heals in 2028. Guest: Rex Glendenning, founder and CEO of REX Realty. Link to episode (# 414) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvh8G60Go50

In this episode, Chris sits down with Rex Glendenning, founder of REX Real Estate and the man known across North Texas as the "King of Dirt." Rex is a fourth-generation Celina native whose great-grandfather homesteaded 160 acres in 1887. Over the last four decades he's brokered billions in DFW land…

There's a startup decision more important than product, money, or growth - and it's the one most founders refuse to make. Guest: James Beshara, angel investor and founder of Magic Mind and tryapt.ai. Link to episode (# 413) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh03lZ_cwY

There's a strategic case for building a startup around a problem you already have - and it goes well beyond "I'd use it myself." Guest: James Beshara, angel investor and founder of Magic Mind and tryapt.ai. Link to episode (# 413) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh03lZ_cwY

Most founders start by hunting for the next big idea. There's a better question to start with. Guest: James Beshara, angel investor and founder of Magic Mind and tryapt.ai. Link to episode (# 413) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh03lZ_cwY

Running 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction isn't just detrimental - it's the exact opposite of what you actually want. Guest: James Beshara, angel investor and founder of Magic Mind and tryapt.ai. Link to episode (# 413) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh03lZ_cwY

The saddest graph in business isn't a flat line - it's one that goes up, then down. Guest: James Beshara, angel investor and founder of Magic Mind and tryapt.ai. Link to episode (# 413) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh03lZ_cwY

In this episode, Chris sits down with James Beshara - founder of Magic Mind, angel investor in 150+ companies (Mercury, Alchemy, Gusto, Halo Top), and a Dallas native who built Tilt and sold it to Airbnb. James spent two years tinkering with Magic Mind before he ever called it a…

One of SpaceX's quietly biggest exports is the people it puts back into the world running other companies. Founder School has a vision for doing the same thing at scale - but starting at 14, not after college. Guest: Nat Eliason who's launching Founders School (within Alpha School), a new…

AI has lowered the bar for entrepreneurship so much that a high school can now promise its students will hit $1M by graduation. Guest: Nat Eliason who's launching Founders School (within Alpha School), a new high school in NYC launching this fall. From Episode # 412 - https://youtu.be/A2DHy1_qYFM See full…

Most kids who "hate math" aren't actually bad at it - they're just a year or two behind, with no way to catch up inside a normal classroom. 30 hours of individualized software can fix that. Guest: Nat Eliason who's launching Founders School (within Alpha School), a new high school…

Business school didn't teach Nat Eliason how to start a company - he had to learn it on his own. So what would it look like to compress the academic day and give a 14-year-old 5+ hours of daily founder mentorship instead? You build the plane in flight, because no…

A vision for a network of high schools with campuses across five cities - each one trying to graduate teenage millionaires. Guest: Nat Eliason who's launching Founders School (within Alpha School), a new high school in NYC launching this fall. From Episode # 412 - https://youtu.be/A2DHy1_qYFM See full episodes here:…

In this episode, Chris sits down with Nat Eliason - founder, writer, and now launching Alpha High, a new entrepreneur high school in New York City. Tuition is $150K a year. The promise: every student hits a million dollars in gross profit by graduation, or the family gets their tuition…

A billion-dollar family office costs about $7.5M a year to run - and some just buy the S&P while others run it like a private equity firm. Guest: Matthew Ogle, co-founder of Legacy Knight, a $2.8B multi-family office in Dallas. From Episode # 411 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szk5EF3CEcA See full episodes here:…

Most wealthy clients say they want to be billionaires. Some inherit $200M and want nothing to do with it. Guest: Matthew Ogle, co-founder of Legacy Knight, a $2.8B multi-family office in Dallas. From Episode # 411 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szk5EF3CEcA See full episodes here: https://www.powerspod.com/follow/

There are roughly five times as many billionaires in Dallas-Fort Worth as the Forbes list shows - and 90% of them don't have a real family office. Guest: Matthew Ogle, co-founder of Legacy Knight, a $2.8B multi-family office in Dallas. From Episode # 411 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szk5EF3CEcA See full episodes here:…