
Buying 500+ Businesses and Turning $100k Into $10B - Fernando De Leon of Leon Capital Group
What happens when a holding company thinks like an immigrant, moves like an entrepreneur, and plays the long game with permanent capital? In this episode, we unpack the operating system of Fernando De Leon and Leon Capital Group—a family holding company that conceives, develops, owns, and operates businesses across real estate, financial services, healthcare, and technology.
You’ll learn:
00:00 - Intro & Leon Capital Group overview
02:26 - Border-childhood & immigrant mindset
05:24 - Turning labor into equity at 14
07:21 - Harvard takeaways & Goldman “pipes of money”
12:37 - Four questions to…
The skinny
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