Richard Baker
speaker
1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My father gave me a little office and said, do anything you want, but don't sign your name to anything and don't spend any money.
Because the philosophy in my family, what I had been brainwashed breakfast with my grandparents and dinners and my parents, we're not investors.
Anybody can invest money and make money.
We're into, uh, how do you make money from no money?
we call it intellectual leverage we use our brains to create value not capital so the idea was figure out how to make money in the real estate space without any money okay well how do you do that it's not so hard so what i did was i developed some relationships with tenants people who were looking for new locations and people who had credit and of course
The first one was this great company that had no stores east of the Mississippi called Walmart.
No one had really heard of them much in the East Coast.
So I went to Bentonville, Arkansas.
By the way, that's how the world works.
Even today, you get off your ass and you go someplace.
If Jen calls and says she has an opening, you get on a plane and you go visit Jen.
You don't text it and phone it and email it and Zoom it and you go do it.
So I got on a plane.
I flew to Bentonville, Arkansas.
Or L.A.
in this case.
But in that case, I flew to Bentonville, Arkansas.
I sat waiting in this waiting room in this trailer for two days, and eventually I got to meet with the folks.
And I was an energetic, smart 21-year-old, and I knew all about the locations and where they would want to go on the East Coast.
And they said, we'd love to do work with you.
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