Fernando De Leon

That was my, 100% of my goal was to protect the family.

Well, technically, you know, Leon Capital wasn't signed into existence until like 2008.

2004?

Yeah, 2004.

Yeah, you're right.

The ideological germination was there.

Because you're right.

What happened was I later, when I was working at Goldman Sachs, you know, I said, you know, I want to go back to Texas and do what I was doing before.

Like, I was good at that.

I got to get back.

And so, yes, you're right that it was always pulling me to come back to Texas after being at Goldman.

And I, you know...

the idea had been built or was inside of me and I just needed to get back to it.

So you're right, that was the origin of who I was.

What I mean by that is that I think

you know, you can own a lot of things.

You can own ideas, you can own your time, but the concept of an asset, you're never too young to own an asset, right?

And so I have a nephew who I told recently, he said, Uncle Fernando, like, how do I start to create wealth?

And I said, hey, you know, you're renting an apartment, go find a way to buy a townhome, a duplex,

and lease the second half of it and use that to pay off the mortgage for the two sites and start with that.