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Exit Lessons From Experienced Investors: Trust, Skin in the Game, and Building a Business You'd Own Forever

August 31, 2026 • Investor Panel

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What do you actually learn after scaling and selling a major platform? In this episode, two investors who have done it give their most honest answers. The first says the single rule that has never failed him is this: if a co-investor won't put their own money in, he walks. Trust and aligned incentives aren't nice-to-haves. They're the entire filter.
The second shares the structural lesson his institutional capital partner taught him during a major platform build: think about what you're building as if you'll own it for 100 years. Companies built for the long term generate the kind of cash flow that attracts serious buyers when the time comes - and the ones that don't rarely find a clean exit.
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What's the most important lesson you've taken away from a major exit or investment outcome?

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We'd also like to sort of reflect on some of the exits. So with Invitational Homes, Jody, you've
had multiple exits through insurance, real estate. So what would be key takeaways and lessons
learned that you would leave the audience with? If there was one thing you want to share with the
audience today, what would you leave the audience with? Unequivocally, whoever you invest with,
you got to like them. You got to trust them. Trust takes a long time to develop.
I'm sorry. Again. I went to Pace. I don't teach you these things. And you like them.
You've got to trust them. And they've got to have skin in the game. You don't want to be the only
person that is taking the risk. And it works every time.
And if somebody comes up to me and they're not putting any money in the deal, I'm really not
interested.
Great.
I think, Amber, you mentioned that you're currently working with an exit from invitation homes.
So what would be a key thing you would leave us with today in terms of insights from the exits?
Yeah, again, just the dumb real estate guy, but build it right. You know, I think we got kind of a
masterclass education with Blackstone as our capital partner. We were, you know, thinking very
small. in the outset, just like how do we make these things operate? How do we lease them up? Our
capital partners definitely elevated our thinking to what's the right structure? What are we
building towards long term? I think with all the real estate that we do, we are ultimately,
we're thinking about it as if we want to own it for 100 years that we're never going to sell.
Obviously, we're always also understanding what does this look like in a sale at different points
of the aggregation process. But I think the biggest thing is if you're building a company that you
would want to own forever, odds are someone else is going to want it to, and there's going to be
interest there. The only other thing I'd say is we have a strong bias towards cash flow,
so we don't do a whole lot of development. We found that, excuse me. Over cycles,
over the years, cash flow is something that people really like. So we try and stay there. Great.
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