#043 Automation and Delegation to buy $500 million+ of real estate, with Rohun Jauhar of JT Capital

Links: Rohun on Twitter JT Capital The Sovereign Individual by James Davidson CBRE JLL 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss Loom Maven The Fear Setting Exercise - Tim Ferriss Topics: (6:10) - Why Eric and Rohun Should have been friends 10 years ago (8:30) - Rohun’s Heroes & family dynamic (15:44) - Journeying into Real Estate (20:52) - Getting Reps: Underwriting Deals (26:57- The importance of scale (30:14) - What is the order of operations for buying a deal? (33:17) - How did you find your partners for JT Capital? (35:26) - Did your uncle pay you for your apprenticeship? (37:25) - What kind of expense ratios are you getting with these large deals as opposed to smaller properties (40:31) - What was your vision for building the company? (43:32) - Were you thinking about leverage at all in this process? (47:26) - Was there anything you brought with you from your career in tech into the RE industry? (50:49) - How are you using EA’s and Virtual assistants in your business? (1:05:04) - Is there anything in your business that cannot be automated or delegated? (1:10:46) - How has your life changed after making this investment? (1:13:36) - How do you balance having partners when you’re structuring your career around freedom? (1:16:15) - How do you compare the pressures of your job now vs. all the unique things you did before this? (1:21:53) - What was the single biggest inflection point of your career? (1:23:41) - Was there any single deal that was make or break for the company? (1:24:56) - What is the mental model you use most frequently? (1:28:50) - Final thoughts & Wrap up To support this costs of producing this podcast:  >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/  >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage  >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the podcast to a friend >> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners  >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa  >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson >> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

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