by Joe Stampone | Mar 11, 2018 | Career, Innovation
I spend a lot of time talking with college students interested in entering the real estate business. When they ask for advice, I try to steer them in the right direction by advising they work for a firm with access to a large volume of deal flow, focus on who you’ll...
by Joe Stampone | Nov 29, 2017 | Asset Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology
Over the past 7 years, Atlas has acquired 45 properties with a total deal value of ~$800M. Over that time, we’ve grown from 3 guys in a 100 SF shared office, to an integrated team with 5 operating platforms. It’s been a wild ride full of exciting expansion, but along...
by Joe Stampone | Nov 13, 2017 | Innovation, Multifamily, Technology
As I write this, I’m on my flight back from an incredible two-week trip around Japan. We spent our first day in Osaka before embarking on a three-day hike of the Kumano Kodo trail. From there, we spent a few nights exploring Kyoto and Hiroshima with day-trips to...
by Joe Stampone | Jun 21, 2017 | Asset Management, Career, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
One of my favorite podcasts is ‘Invest Like the Best’ hosted by Patrick O’Shaughnessy. He has a mix if incredible guests from all ends of the finance world (venture capital, authors, researchers, portfolio managers), and recently did an episode on quantitative...
by Joe Stampone | May 24, 2017 | Asset Management, Innovation, Technology
Over the past 7 years, the Atlas portfolio and investor network has grown exponentially. What started as an intimate group of friends and family, has ballooned to a robust network of 400+ individual high-net-worth investors. Over time, the administrative burden of...
by Joe Stampone | May 3, 2017 | Innovation, Technology
I still think autonomous cars will create more billionaires in real estate and retail than in tech or manufacturing. Just as cars did. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) August 29, 2016 Autonomous cars will be pervasive in the next 5-10 years. They will be safer and...