Tag @grantcardone to see it 👇🏻 This guy went from abusing drugs to building a $5 billion real estate empire! Grant Cardone grows up in Louisiana and loses his dad at 10. By 15 he's using drugs and stays hooked for a full decade, until his mother cuts him off completely. At 25 he checks into a 30-day treatment center. When he walks out, he takes a sales job he hates and trains on it every single day for five years, getting so good the US Army licenses his system to train their own teams. The consulting money stacks up, and in the early 2000s he buys his first apartment complex in San Diego, making more on one deal than eight years of consulting combined. By 2016 he has a real portfolio, but the best deals are locked up by Blackstone and Vanguard, and regular investors have no way in. So he turns to Instagram. ✓ Lets his own audience fund the deals instead of chasing Wall Street money ✓ Raises $45 million for his first fund in seven months ✓ Buys the properties first, gets them generating rent, then lets investors in ✓ Pays them a monthly cut from the rent, every month, for over 20 years Loses his dad at 10 → a decade on drugs → rebuilds through sales the Army licenses → one apartment deal beats eight years of work → the big funds lock everyone out → opens it up on Instagram → over $5 billion across 20,000 investors. Sometimes the opportunity is letting the people locked out finally get in. #Business #CardoneCapital #RealEstate #Success #Entrepreneur @Grant Cardone - @theventure