Dan Pierson Interviewed at the Jets and Capital Event in Las Vegas

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I'm at the Jets in Capital event. And let me tell you, it's been a great night so far. I mean, there's been presentations, there's jets, there's supercars. Amazing, amazing network. And my next guest is Dan. Dan, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I love. Doing these kind of interviews and at these amazing events as well. So Dan, is this your first time at Jetson Capital or have you been here before? This is my first time at Jetson Capital. I've been following the Jetson Capital team for many, many years. I've been in Jordan for a really long time, but this is actually my first time being at an event. Oh, I love that. I'm a newbie too, so what do you think so far? Like, you're here, I'm here, and I'm like, what? What do you think? It's amazing. The Jetson cars obviously are cool and it attracts the people, but the people here are amazing. There's lots of allocators. There's lots of great fund managers and people with amazing deals and companies. So it's, it's a great mix of everybody. So it lives up to the hype. It really does. Yeah, it absolutely lives up to the hype. It's, it's always one of the best events. Best reviewed events that I, that I see. Hmm. So where are you based out of? I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ohio. Okay. So you came to, did you come here for this event? Yes. Yeah. So I came here for this event. There was another event that happened a couple of days ago that I was also a part of. I should go get that. I was on a couple of panels with that, but it was a back to back event schedule and it was designed for that. Amazing. So tell me a little bit more about your business. Yeah. So I am the founder of Pearson Equity Group. That's evolved into a portfolio of different. Funds. So I have a couple of real estate funds. I have a debt fund and then I have a private equity style fund where I consult for equity and in other companies, so I'm lots of offerings and, I'm really just here to continue to grow and expand my business. Are you from the Midwest then or? I am, yeah, I was born and raised in Cincinnati, but my whole family is still there. Midwesterners, that's what I'm talking about. You got a Michigander over here, come on, come on. What college are you rooting for? What's the team? Always the University of Cincinnati. Okay, so that's very PC, right? Yeah, but I don't always root for Ohio State though, so. The University of Cincinnati is such an underdog to Ohio State that I, I like to root against them sometimes. But you always root for Michigan State, so it's okay, it's fine. Obviously where I went, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what, see, who would have thought at the Jetson Capital event in Las Vegas, we're getting a little bit of Midwest love, too. Look at that. Yeah. It's the best kind of people. Yeah, for sure. I'll, I'll say that one. It's my show. It's fine. So what are you, so what are you here looking for? Are you looking to meet allocators? Are you looking to meet, are you looking to meet investors? Like, what's the, what's the ask on your end? Yeah, so this event specifically, I am I'm looking for real estate deals to invest in. I'm also looking for a little bit of capital for my debt fund. But in reality, I'm really here to assist other people. So I help a lot of emerging fund managers. And I wanted to come to this event to support the people that I know personally. So I knew that I could come here and I could play this master connector role. And just be a value to the, to the people in the community. How'd you get into the business? Like how'd you start? That's a good question. When the pandemic started, I was in the fitness industry. So fitness, restaurants, entertainment, and of course, a lot of other industries got really, really hurt in the pandemic. So I have a wife and kids and I had to put food on the table. So I shifted into commercial real estate. It was something I always wanted to do. But then I had this, this realization that I spent 10 years in the fitness industry. climbing this mountain and I didn't want to start over in a different industry and have to climb that same mountain. So I was seeking opportunities and ways to, to kind of skip a couple of years and jump to the top of the mountain. And so my very first fund was actually on the, on the money side of larger commercial deals. So I knew if I could support really great operators that are doing huge acquisitions. I could skip to the top of that mountain a lot faster and that's what I did. Yeah. What do you think are some of the secrets to your success at how you've been able to, to, you know, do what you've done moving from fitness to real estate, to the fun, like how, how did that happen? So this is something that

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