Brandon Zick
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Brandon Zick is The Operator because his mind moves straight past macro thesis-building to execution mechanics: lease structure, sourcing networks, water-table geography as practical risk controls.
“Yeah, I mean, it's all relative, but to your point about are there different values for different buyers? Absolutely. Even if two buyers both intend to farm it, there are absolutely differences in how someone will value it. In some cases, on the same land, it comes down to what crop do you intend to grow?”
“Yeah, so a book, and I mentioned water is just such an important thing. A book that I read often, it's called Water, the Epic Struggle for Power and Civilization.”
“Yeah, I mean, we're seeing it firsthand now in the Midwest the amount of additional building that's happening around data centers is unbelievable and the amount of capital that's being invested in these areas like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois around data center development, it's really staggering when you think about it.”
“Yeah, I mean, there's no black box here to what we're doing. It's really a blocking and tackling strategy. And we encourage all of our investors when they're contemplating this or even on an annual or biannual basis come out and look at these properties and see what we're doing.”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: Farmland Investing (Fan Favorite)”
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