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by Thesis Driven

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Timber's Fastest Asset
Timberland
Signal Line Partners
Timber's Fastest Asset

Inside Signal Line Partners: a Paulownia hardwood platform with an 8-to-12 year harvest cycle, 88% survivability, and a fully de-risked farmer partnership model.

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Flexible, Robotic Housing for the Tech Workforce
Robotic Extended-Stay Housing
REthink Development
Flexible, Robotic Housing for the Tech Workforce

Inside REthink Development: a 34-unit Culver City project built around robotic, expandable units for tenants who need three to nine months, not a year-long lease or a hotel room.

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Nashville’s First Hospitality-Driven Ownership Residences
Flex Ownership
Modernest
Nashville’s First Hospitality-Driven Ownership Residences

Inside Modernest: how Modernest is turning the gap between hotel and home into Nashville's most compelling ownership product.

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The Rise of Culinary Centric Community Development
Culinary Communities
CERES
The Rise of Culinary Centric Community Development

Inside CERES: how CERES Chattahoochee Hills is pioneering the gourmet cluster model that's turning food into America's most powerful community amenity.

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Niche Industrial 2026
Industrial
Thesis Driven Pitch Series
Niche Industrial 2026

The operators building the next generation of industrial real estate. 10 groups across IOS, small-bay, cold storage, powered land, self storage, film studios, data centers, and manufacturing, presenting their strategies, track records, and growth plans.

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Self-Storage in America’s Leisure Towns
Self-Storage
Ludlow Property Group
Self-Storage in America’s Leisure Towns

Inside Ludlow Property Group: how Ludlow built the only institutional self-storage platform in America's supply-constrained leisure markets.

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Redefining Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing
Angeleno
Redefining Affordable Housing

Inside Angeleno: how a vertically integrated platform is turning LA's policy tailwinds into a repeatable, institutional-grade affordable housing strategy.

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Capitalizing Real Estate Platforms
Investor
Madison International Realty
Capitalizing Real Estate Platforms

Inside Madison International Realty: how one of the industry’s leading liquidity providers structures platform investments with middle market real estate operating companies.

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Rethinking Real Estate Education
Graduate Education
Georgetown’s M.S. in Global Real Assets
Rethinking Real Estate Education

Inside Georgetown’s M.S. in Global Real Assets: redefining real estate education for global real assets, infrastructure, policy, and the next generation of capital markets leaders.

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Converting Distressed Offices to Families-Only Social Clubs
Family Social Clubs
STONETHROW & ROSTER FAMILY CLUBS
Converting Distressed Offices to Families-Only Social Clubs

A look at the creation of a families-only Dallas country club from a new generation of hospitality developers

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A Deep Dive on Student Housing OpCo/PropCo
Student Housing
Aptitude Development
A Deep Dive on Student Housing OpCo/PropCo

Vertically-integrated developer of purpose-built student housing in Tier-1 college markets

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Investing in Micro-Multifamily
Multifamily
GROMA
Investing in Micro-Multifamily

A deep dive into Groma’s technology-driven strategy to aggregate, renovate, and operate small multifamily buildings at institutional scale.

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Scaling Class-A Contractor Yards
Outdoor Storage
CA SOUTH
Scaling Class-A Contractor Yards

A deep dive into CA South’s plan to build the first national platform of secure, purpose-built contractor yards for America’s 33 million small businesses.

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Scaling Niches into Durable Platforms
Investor
DRAKE
Scaling Niches into Durable Platforms

A deep dive into Drake Real Estate Partners’ niche-driven strategy, operator model, and value-add execution framework.

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Investing in Wine Country Real Estate
Wine Hospitality
GIOVANNI BONELLI
Investing in Wine Country Real Estate

An investor deep dive into Giovanni Bonelli Group’s Tuscan hospitality and villa-fractional platform.

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Where Alma Maters Meet Alumni Luxury
University Hospitality
ALUM CLUBS
Where Alma Maters Meet Alumni Luxury

A deep dive into ALUM, the first branded residence and private club platform built specifically for college-town alumni.

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Brooklyn’s New Members Club for Families
Family Members Club
LITTLE BIG HOSPITALITY
Brooklyn’s New Members Club for Families

A deep dive into The Beginning, a 45,000+ sq. ft. family-focused members club launching in Brooklyn Heights.

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Beyond the Tent
Outdoor Hospitality
Ramble & Sojourner
Beyond the Tent

An institutional look at how luxury and nature merge in the $20B outdoor hospitality market.

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Inside Real Estate’s Wave Boom: Pioneers of Surf Infrastructure
Surf Parks
Aventuur, KSM Realty, & The Wave
Inside Real Estate’s Wave Boom: Pioneers of Surf Infrastructure

A deep dive into the rise of surf infrastructure and the developers shaping the next major leisure asset class.

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Brad Hargreaves

Thesis Driven is not about specific deals, personalities, or behind-the-scenes drama. We promise thoughtful qualitative and quantitative analysis of emerging themes and opportunities as well as the GPs behind them. If that’s for you, please join us.

Brad Hargreaves
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Thesis Driven, former co-founder of General Assembly & Common

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