Episode 235: Jay Sugarman, CEO of iStar & Safehold, takes Ground Leases to New Heights

05/10/21 • 56 min

Jay Sugarman, Chairman and CEO of iStar (NYSE: STAR) and Safehold (NYSE: SAFE), is on a mission to unlock the value of the ground beneath our feet. In 2017, Jay launched Safehold to modernize the ground lease business and do for buildings what net lease did for commercial real estate. His career has flourished with a contrarian view that gave him control of undervalued assets, from bowling alleys to a Major League Soccer Team, the Philadelphia Union, he now owns with fellow New Yorker Kevin Durant. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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Episode 234: Scaling Globally with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir and Riverwood Co-founder Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

A pair of guests joined us for this week’s podcast: Riverwood Capital Partners Co-founder Francisco Alvarez-Demalde and Insider CEO & Co-founder Hande Cilingir. Francisco and Hande discussed how tech hubs are flourishing in all corners of the planet, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Francisco and Hande view markets through a prism that reveals entrepreneurship is universal, and the opportunities for technology, artificial intelligence, and investment growth are everywhere.

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Episode 236: Founder Collective’s David Frankel Seeks Out Founders Who Are “All Over It”

Founder Collective, the seed-stage VC fund that David Frankel co-founded in 2009, has found success by investing in founders who are “all over it,” regardless of what the “it” is. This anti-thematic philosophy has helped Founder Collective get in on the ground floor on everything from UBER (NYSE:UBER) to off-shore oyster farming. Coming off the recent listing of Coupang (NYSE:CPNG) and Olo (NYSE:OLO), David talks about the past, present, and future of providing the financial spark to light the next big thing. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house