REAL ESTATE→CAPITAL BASE→ENERGY + RESOURCESPreparing the productive landscape…
THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE SCROLL TO ADVANCE
01Real estateTHE CAPITAL FOUNDATION
02EnergyFUNDED BY REINVESTMENT
03ResourcesCAPITAL + ENERGY AT WORK
04ToolsTHE NEXT LAYER
05IndustryTHE NEXT LAYER
06InnovationTHE NEXT LAYER
07EventsTHE NEXT LAYER
08ResidentialTHE NEXT LAYER
REINVESTED CAPITAL GENERATED POWERCONCEPTUAL INVESTMENT SYSTEM / NOT CURRENT HOLDINGS
★ ★ ★ AN AMERICAN INVESTMENT FUNDINDEPENDENT SPIRIT. INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH.
REAL ESTATE FIRST. AMERICAN INDUSTRY NEXT.
We built the impossible. We can again.
We invest in real estate first. At critical mass, that foundation helps fund energy generation and resource production.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDAFEBRUARY 24, 2011
THE INVESTMENT SEQUENCE
Real estate first. Productive capacity next.
We begin by investing in real estate. The plan is to build the asset base to critical mass, then use that foundation to help finance energy generation and resource production.
FOLLOW THE CAPITAL. SEE WHAT IT MAKES POSSIBLE. ↓
THE BLUEPRINT
01 / 08Real estate
Start with real estate.
Income-producing property builds our capital base. At critical mass, we reinvest in energy and resource production.
PROPERTY INCOME→GROWTH CAPITAL
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02 / 08Energy
Build the power.
Property capital helps fund generation and storage—the power America needs to produce more.
PROPERTY CAPITAL→ENERGY GENERATION
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03 / 08Resources
Produce the essential inputs.
Put capital and power behind domestic resources, from aggregates and metals to the materials industry depends on.
CAPITAL + POWER→RESOURCES
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04 / 08Tools
Equip the builders.
Turn domestic resources into machines, workshops, and the practical capability to make things here.
RESOURCES→TOOLS + CAPABILITY
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05 / 08Industry
Bring making home.
Land, power, resources, and tools converge on the factory floor. Each investment strengthens the next.
CONNECTED INPUTS→AMERICAN INDUSTRY
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06 / 08Innovation
Make here. Invent here.
Keep research close to production, where new ideas can be tested, improved, and built at scale.
INDUSTRY→INNOVATION
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07 / 08Events
Progress needs a meeting place.
Bring builders, operators, and ideas together. Turn industrial ambition into a community that gets to work.
SHARED PLACES→HUMAN CONNECTION
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08 / 08Residential
Good work. A place to live.
Homes near meaningful work create lasting communities—and a stronger real estate foundation for the next cycle.
INDUSTRY + COMMUNITY→A NEW FOUNDATION
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One foundation. Compounding possibility.
We believe rebuilding America is a sequence, not a single bet.
Our first investments are in real estate. At critical mass, the resulting asset base is intended to help fund energy generation and resource production. Those capabilities support the next layers: tools, industry, innovation, and community.
Each investment should make the next one possible. Each layer should make the whole stronger.
01 / PATIENT FOUNDATIONS
Start with something real.
Land and buildings establish the base. Expansion follows a foundation strong enough to support it.
02 / CONNECTED INVESTMENTS
Build the missing links.
Energy, materials, tools, and industry work together. We see the opportunity in their connections.
03 / LASTING COMMUNITIES
Make progress a place.
Innovation, gathering, and housing turn productive capacity into somewhere people can build a life.
THE LANDSCAPE IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF OUR INVESTMENT THESIS, NOT A REPRESENTATION OF CURRENT HOLDINGS.
THE AMERICAN INHERITANCE / 1903–2015
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This is what we’re made of.
From the first flight to the first landing. From the shop floor to the launchpad. A country built by people who make things.
190301 / THE FIRST LEAP
A workshop. Then a new world.
Orville Wright at the controls. Wilbur alongside. The first flight grew from years of hands-on experimentation with the materials, tools, and machinery available to two builders.
The real women behind the Rosie the Riveter symbol helped build America’s industrial capacity. Here, an aircraft worker uses a hand drill at the Vultee plant in Nashville.
Falcon 9’s first stage returns to Landing Zone 1 after the ORBCOMM-2 mission: SpaceX’s first successful landing of an orbital-class booster. Another boundary moved by people who build.