Beyond Sight: Mike Ecklund's Triumph in Real Estate and the Opportunity for Cannabis
Description
Mike has twenty-five years of real estate and finance experience. His experience includes structuring joint ventures, acquisitions, development, accounting, and investment management; with acquisition officer responsibility for approximately $1 billion in investment across asset classes and in multiple U.S. markets.
On this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up with Best disease (vitelliform macular dystrophy)
- The changing landscape of NIL in college sports
- Mike's real estate career, thoughts on the market and entering the cannabis industry from a real estate perspecitve
- Building a real estate investment platform
Links:
Mike on LinkedIn
Morningside Capital
(00:00:00 ) - Intro
(00:03:27 ) - Dealing with Best disease as a child
(00:20:23 ) - The evolving landscape of NIL
(00:24:01 ) - Mike's career
(00:41:29 ) - Lessons learned and setbacks
(00:44:40 ) - The real estate opportunity in the marijuana industry
(00:52:33 ) - Building an investment platform
United States
