Fail Forward: Ari Rastegar on Lessons That Built an Empire in Austin

What this episode is about

Ari Rastegar, founder and CEO of Rastagar Capital, shares his unconventional journey from fast food to leading a billion-dollar real estate empire in Austin, highlighting the crucial role of failure as a stepping stone to success. His innovative approach focuses on building recession-resilient assets and prioritizing sustainable growth through unique opportunities, reshaping the landscape of real estate investment.

Key takeaways

• Failure isn't just an end; it's the prologue to your success story—embrace the plot twists.
• In real estate, it's not just about assets; it's about the communities that transform them into gold mines.
• A billion-dollar empire started with a $3,000 loan: a reminder that small investments can yield the biggest dreams.
• Investing in recession-proof assets is like carrying an umbrella; it may feel unnecessary until the storm hits.
• Chasing huge returns often means chasing huge risks; solid growth lies in the art of restraint.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Tommy Mello (Host) · 8 min speaking
• Ari Rastegar (Guest) · 18 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Ari Rastagar, Rastagar Capital, Johnny Rockets
2. 10:00 – 15:00: The e- Myth Revisited, Hundred Years of Solitude, Moby Dick, The Ultimate Sales Machine
3. 20:00 – 25:00: Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, Johnny Rockets

Notable quotes from "Fail Forward: Ari Rastegar on Lessons That Built an Empire in Austin"

• Of Austin for his bold approach to real estate and wealth creation. All success is about inertia, is about action. Ari Rastagar is the founder and CEO of Rastagar Capital, a…

  about Ari Rastagar · at 0:24

• They were doing, storage they were doing, office they were doing. so we took a sliver of this building that used to be KPMG's headquarters the big accounting firm.

  about KPMG · at 5:59

• Was Kill a mockingb bird, I think in 11th grade. And he's Well, listen, this is called The E-Myth Revisited. Go read this. And then he gave me The Richest Man in Babylon. And…

  about The e- Myth Revisited · at 10:46

• Personal development books. For example, give me your top three. Oh, another Well, I'll tell you if there anybody is listening to this that has not read Hundred Years of…

  about Hundred Years of Solitude · at 12:05

• Entrepreneurial journey in real estate is something that you find to be interesting. I love the first Rich Dad Poor Dad. I read it the first time when as a you know 13-year-old…

  about Rich Dad Poor Dad · at 20:52

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Ari Rastagar — Person · Main guest · 1 mention · first at 0:22
  Primary interview subject discussing his path from law to real estate, relationship-building, risk management, and long-term wealth creation.

Books & papers

• Rich Dad Poor Dad — Book · Primary recommendation · 1 mention · first at 20:57
  Recommended by Ari Rastagar for entrepreneurs starting their journey in real estate.
• The e- Myth Revisited — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 10:50
  One of the first books that got Ari Rastagar obsessed with reading and business.
• Think and Grow Rich — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 21:20
  A foundational book for Ari Rastagar that drew together his understanding of wealth creation.
  Could see the difference between making money work for you versus working for money. And then when my father gave me Think and Grow Rich at about 14 or 15 years old, that foundational piece drew the thing drew it all together.
• The Ultimate Sales Machine — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 10:57
  One of the first books recommended to Ari Rastagar that got him into reading business books.
  Gave me The Richest Man in Babylon. And then I went back two days later and he gave me The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chad Holmes. And those were the first three books that got…
• Hundred Years of Solitude — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 12:13
  A novel recommended by Ari Rastagar for its ability to expand one's capacity to dream.
• Moby Dick — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 12:14
  A classic novel recommended by Ari Rastagar for its depth and historical context.
  Anybody is listening to this that has not read Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or if you're in America and haven't read Moby Dick, Dosski, Prime and…

Companies & orgs

• Rastagar Capital — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at 0:34
  Ari Rastagar's private investment firm with a focus on recession-resilient real estate assets.
  Of Austin for his bold approach to real estate and wealth creation. All success is about inertia, is about action. Ari Rastagar is the founder and CEO of Rastagar Capital, a…
• Johnny Rockets — Company · Setting · 2 mentions · first at 0:03
  The place where Ari Rastagar promised himself to tell the truth about his failures if he ever succeeded.
  And I promised myself, at Johnny Rockets one day that if I ever got to the other side, I would tell the truth. And the truth of the matter is this experiment experience, which is.
• KPMG — Company · Case study · 2 mentions
  Mentioned as the former headquarters of a building Ari Rastagar invested in.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 The only thing that I've got really good at at this point in my life is failing. And I promised myself, you know, at Johnny Rockets one day that if I ever got to the other side, um, I would tell the truth. And the truth of the matter is this experiment experience, which is this life that we're in now. The other side of the coin is failure.

0:18 Contrarian, resilient, trailblazing. Our guest today is known as the Oracle of Austin for his bold approach to real estate and wealth creation. All success is about inertia, is about action. Ari Rastagar is the founder and CEO of Rastagar Capital, a private investment firm with a portfolio built around recession resilient assets, including multif family, office, and industrial properties.

0:42 To me, failure is learning how to win. His career path has been anything but ordinary. He went from flipping burgers to becoming a lawyer to launching his first real estate investment firm while still in law school in 2006. Today, he's built a reputation for spotting opportunities and scaling them into long-term success. You know, real estate at the end of the day is about people. While some investors chase trends, he focuses on assets built to weather downturns and thrive when the market gets tough.

1:08 This is sustainable growth based upon solid fundamental economics. Ari believes that the greatest returns come from thinking differently and playing the long game. Get ready. This conversation will change how you think about risk, resilience, and rewriting your own path to wealth. Okay guys, welcome back to the Mellow Millionaire. Today I'm in Austin traveling actually for work and going on a hunting trip and Ari was nice enough Rastagar to be on the podcast. So Ari is the visionary founder of Rastagar Property Company, a real estate investment firm redefining how people live, work, and thrive. Dubbed the Oracle of Austin, he built a billion-dollar portfolio spanning from multifamily office and mixed spaces with a focus on innovation and sustainability. So, you are born and raised here. You started out with a $3,000 loan 10 years ago, and you built just a massive real estate portfolio.

2:03 Tell us a little bit about the story. I'm an attorney by trade, you know, but it took me a while to to get to that. I didn't want to even go to college between you and I. And my dad said, you know, being an Iranian immigrant and having the dictatorial typical Iranian father, said, "After you become a lawyer, you can be an exotic dancer for all I care." Didn't do too well in middle school or high school. Had a terrible speech impediment and kind of uncomfortable in my own skin. And um had to go to a couple community colleges before Texas A&M was kind of dumb enough to let me in. But I graduated number one in my class and um delivered pizzas all through college and was, you know, trying to trying to get it together. And then um and then while I was in law school, I was building single family homes like in between, you know, in between classes and little houses that I used my scholarship money to buy a

2:54 little lot for 3,500 bucks. And uh met a local builder and, you know, he built it and helped me get a loan. And I was on the construction sites in the morning and in class in the afternoons. And um it was something.

3:06 And now where you at today? What are you looking forward to doing? Well um real estate is about people and that's really what I love, you know, as a corporate litigator um before and just seeing people on the worst day of their lives every day wasn't um you know, wasn't something that um that interested me too much. Um but building community is really what is really what I love. But we're we designed this beautiful futuristic multif family um single family home, little Texas town square, new elementary school that actually just opened in August. Um and just how there's this 60 acre of green space um that really holds that community together um is the things that we really really love. And you know we we've built a lot of different stuff from industrial facilities um to apartment complexes.

3:58 We've owned department office self storage. Um I'm pretty sure we've invested in 38 cities, 13 states and just about every asset class. And I guess if you build if you build everything that we own today, meaning on the hundreds of acres of land. And um if you build all of it, it's worth a little over 10 billion.

4:19 Wow. And I own 100% of the company and never took corporate capital at the corporate level. Um there's like this unspoken rule that nobody will give you a billion dollars in equity um to start. And so we just passed our 10-year in business mark in February. Um and so over the next 6 to9 months, we're going to start having some dialogues to um to go do something fun.

4:40 So what kind of internal rate of return do you try to shoot for? We're we're we're singles and doubles, guys. You know, we're we're not shooting for the moon. And the downside risk protection is

4:51 way better. Yeah. is what we look for. And so if I can make, you know, between a 16 to an 18 IRRa, and effectively what that means to your point is the average return that you make on a yearly basis. Okay. And um if you look at our audited track record, um we've been able to do that in some very difficult markets. I mean, co a bunch of stuff that people can complain about, but um there in lies the opportunity um so to speak. Um, but we're not looking to make huge returns because making huge returns means you took huge amount of risk.

5:29 100%. So, in the beginning, you didn't have access to none of this stuff and you made a lot of cold calls. What's one cold call that changed everything for you?

5:39 I made um so I was sitting in an office. It's a great question. Um, so I had invested um in an office building in downtown Dallas um through another operator and that's really as I said we started in the business. I knew a bunch of great real estate guys from my time in New York City and um I was fortunate enough for them to give me allocations and the stuff whether the apartments they were doing, storage they were doing, office they were doing. Um so we took a sliver of this um building that used to be KPMG's um headquarters the big accounting firm.

6:09 I basically made a list of all the financial advisors that were in the Dallas area and I was, you know, calling, you know, 50, 60, 70 a day and we, you know, kind of branched out and, you know, it was a lot of lot of long, long, long phone calls that lasted, you know, 3 to 5 seconds and then something very interesting happened. Um, after about 6 weeks of making hundreds of dials a day, the the rest is history. So, how did you get in the right rooms when no one knew your name? I mean, is that just grit?

6:42 Yes. Yeah. And I I would go in New York City to this Italian restaurant called Ilmolino. I got to know the the bartender, his name was Elvis, and I'd go sit up there and um being a big tipper goes a long way. And whenever wealthy people would show up, they'd call me and I'd go up and I'd sit at the table and it would be these um these situations that were curated that seemed to be serendipitous and seemed to be um happen stance, but they were cultivated. And so they were cultivated. You got to meet them, talk with them, and getting to know all the people at these places, you become a regular. And when those people start to like you and then other people there start to like you, something happens when you create an aura and a situation where several people like you, strangers very quickly alchemize into friends. And if you can create a situation where you're around people that genuinely love you and

7:32 they're going to go tell all the thing, all you have to do is nod and smile. So, how do friends influence people? Let the people talk more, smile more, be there for them. How do you feel like you're able to really develop a relationship? Because that's a lot of people say I got a lot of friends and it's very hard once you get over like 20. I don't have that many friends at all. My best friend is in the other room. We've been friends in seventh grade and he's the chief of staff of our firm. But there's a big difference between friends, acquaintances. There's buckets of how those work. Asking genuine questions about people that I could potentially have a commonality with um is how you create and build a friendship or build a relationship. And it starts by asking a meaningful question.

8:15 And when they give you a meaningful answer, dovetailing that with sharing something personal and that compounds over the course of 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour, you do that four, five, six, seven times. Um, you start having commonality and once you have commonality, you have empathy. And when you have empathy, you have everything.

8:33 I love it. You know, there's two guys that come to mind. John Ruland wrote Gifttologology, passed away. Um, Steve Sims just passed away. Wrote a book called Blue Fishing. And both these guys were really good at building relationships. And it's just these little touch points that I'm trying to get better at with the people. If you're intentional with your relationships, it opens so many doors. Building really authentic relationships is a text message a couple times a week of, "Hey, bro, what's going on? You know, what's the latest or something versus some grandiose gesture, you know, once a quarter or some, you know, some, you know, sterile imminent email to all of the people." Well, that, you know, the real deal is I catch up with buddies.

9:16 Uh, sometimes I unfortunately go a year without talking to them. And when we get together, I tell my friends, "Look, I'm busy, you're busy." I had one of my best friends in my backyard recently. This was like in the last year and we grew up together. And I showed him my schedule and he's like, "Dude, [ __ ] that." He's like, "Are you kidding me?" And I'm like, "This is the way I like things." because some of the things are like do a 100 push-ups, call your mom, read this book. There's so many different elements than just money.

9:45 Um, yeah, money is on its face is not interesting. Money is a tool. Money is a is a catalyst. Money and on its own is absolutely worthless. I've made I've made money. I've lost money. Um, but the point is money itself is not a thing. It's an illusion that it's a thing. It's a tool and it matters who's holding it and how that's actually facilitated. I've had billions and billions of dollars go through my hands throughout my career and I'm just getting started between you and between you and I. But it's also like you said like everything in nature is busy.

10:17 Everything the birds, the bees, the plants, the trees, everything is busy. So not being busy with some sort of action. You are neglecting your part in the whole. I always say readers are leaders. When I was uh starting my business, when I was 22, I met this CPA that only worked with 10 clients, very wealthy clients. And he's like, "Dude, I like you." He's like, "I'm going to give you tips along the way." He's like, "I might even work with you." He's like, "But you got to do me a favor." He's like, "What's the last book you read?" I was like, "Kill a mockingb bird," I think in 11th grade. And he's like, "Well, listen, this is called The E-Myth Revisited. Go read this." And then he gave me The Richest Man in Babylon. And then I went back two days later and he gave me uh The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chad Holmes. And those were the first three books that got me obsessed with reading. I was like, I didn't know books

11:02 like this existed. So, I'll tell you a story. My daughter, when she was in kindergarten, my oldest daughter, they were had that point in the class when they say, "So, you know, what does your mommy do? What does your dad do?" And they'd go up and um, you know, I know the teacher obviously very well. And she goes up there and very proud said, "My daddy is a reader." So, so it became this thing. Um, I am a voracious reader and there's no limit to the amounts that I read. But I'll tell you something as a lifelong personal development, you know, uh, guy like you because I'm a nobody from nowhere. Like whatever I am, I I built this guy out of nothing and there wasn't much to work with um, between you and I. Um but what I can tell you is as an English literature major, okay, reading the greatest books in the world was my profession effectively. And I have found there to be more substance and more

12:01 expansion in reading the best novels in the world than reading any of the personal development books. For example, um give me give me your top three. Oh, another Well, I'll tell you if there anybody is listening to this that has not read Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, um or if you're in America and haven't read Moby Dick, um Dosski, Prime and Punishment, The Idiot, Czechov, Dickens, um you're you're doing yourself an injustice. And the reason I say that is reading the the greatest novels in the world expand your possibilities. What do I mean by that?

12:36 If you stud if you read Dickens, you read Blee House as an example, um you're not just reading a book, you're studying a time in history when it was written. You're seeing a social commentary, you're reading a vernacular from a particular city, country, state. So, you're getting a history lesson. You're getting a human psychology lesson. You're learning about relationships. And by digesting that deep in your subconscious, you're expanding your ability to dream.

13:01 I want to ask you three questions that are repeats. I got a million questions here. So, we're we're going to go over time a little bit. Um, what's one piece of gamechanging advice you wish you knew in your 20s?

13:11 I'd be telling myself um that in this particular time space, time is much more limited than um than I treated it at the time. At that age, um I I thought that I had all the time in the world and I thought time was moving slow. I went to I went to classes, I came back and I found myself sitting around a lot even though I was working, even though I was I was studying. um and going back and looking at the things that could have been done with a little bit more intention um would have compounded into something even more profound. You look at Warren Buffett that has the um all the accolades and then just the name itself creates something. He wasn't a billionaire till he was 65 years old.

13:54 He's made 99.9% of his wealth after 70. The greatest thing he ever did is live to 95.

14:00 Well, it's true. People underestimate what they could do in 10 years, but they overestimate what they could do in a year.

14:06 I think so much of the very hard work that I that I have done in my life. And I'm no stranger to sleeping in my office for days at a time. You know, when my kids were young, I would go home at some point and be out at the office and not see them awake for days at a time. You know, working those frenetic hours is very much in my DNA. But looking back, seeing how bad of a strategy that was in in hindsight, if I would have started a little bit earlier, the smaller little bits of effort, my own work, so to speak, could have turned into um could have turned into strategic delegation much earlier.

14:43 Uh if you were to start over tomorrow with 10 million bucks, what would you do with it?

14:47 Start over with 10 million bucks tomorrow. I would spend at least a year um traveling the world and during that one year I would spend a year planning the next 10 years and I would do that in a capacity in different cultures, different climates, um eating different foods, experiencing different body movements. Um, and I would go and use that time to really, really plan, feel emotionally spiritually physically things that I had not felt before to awaken parts within me that had not been awakened and then from that place be comfortable walking into the unknown and letting the plan on the 366th day dictate what I was going to do.

15:34 It's very interesting. I love that. I think a lot of people you get caught in this trap of comparison and just a lot of people and if you get on social media, which I do, it's probably a mistake, but I got to post all the time. This is kind of nature of the beast, but uh I just can't believe how many people just have nothing better to do than insult other people and get into debates with people they've never met. Only only miserable people do that.

16:00 100%. Only miserable people do that. And at this point in my life, finding a place of actual love for those situations really changed the way that I look at my life. And for most of my life, I would consider myself a pretty angry person.

16:16 Yeah. Yes. Um mad at myself, mad at the world, feeling entitled. Um something was owed to me. My family in Iran um were very powerful to say the the absolute least and came over and started over. We weren't Muslim. They killed our whole family. Um, and so there was a and this is the story of a lot of Iranian Americans um that are here in Texas, California. You kind of knew that Austin was going to be explode. You also knew in 2006 that uh storage was going to be a good industry. You kind of are able to see things before they happen. What do you think? What are the signs?

16:55 Austin is a town on steroids. It's not a city. um grow living in Dallas, um going to law school in San Antonio. We don't say the H word. These are metropolis, okay? They were built with infrastructure highways they're expansive. Um Austin has real geographical barriers, you know? Um it was a little sleepy hippie town. Um was a music, you know, music hippie town. Nobody really anticipated um Austin. Um, I know in hindsight there have been some very flattering things that people have said about our thesis. I wish I could tell you I was as clairvoyant then um as it has appeared to be. Um, but the truth of the matter is people have certain core values that make them spend money. Water is one of them, nature is one of them. And live music. So, meaning there's these tribal things with this two million-year-old reptilian brain that sits up here and the behavioral aspect of humans, as unique and interesting as we all like to

18:06 believe that we are, um, we're not. We're amazingly similar and amazingly repetitive and amazingly predictable. If you look at the um the cycles that go through real estate, you look at the debt cycles that happen through global economies, you can almost time them to the day um of how they will repeat themselves, keeping things as simple as possible, but no simpler has been our guiding our guiding principle along along the way. Um, but what are your thoughts with AI is probably I mean I don't know if you know Peter Diamontes and what's going on or just this idea but I I do believe Bill Gates I mean he said in 10 years you're going to decide if you even want to work. Uh next year Elon Musk is coming out with his robots that'll do cooking, walk the dogs, simple things around the house and you talk a lot about technology. You're a big fan. You told Forbes you embrace technology because you're a hybrid.

19:04 Where where do you think we're going? The way that I've been taught about artificial intelligence as an example is the same way you would look at electricity. Meaning it's not a separate thing. The right now it's being one-dimensionalized as a thing. Artificial intelligence is over here. But in fact, it's going to become the underpinning and an activation catalyst point for all the other things as an underpinning. Not unlike electricity. Electricity turns on these lights, turns on these things. So we don't think of electricity as much as its own thing because it is now become ubiquitous through everything that we do. That's the place where AI is coming. So in this fourth industrial revolution, it's the equivalent electricity just so you know, was like the Facebook of its day. It was a fight between, you know, between Cornelius Vanderbilt, uh, between JP Morgan, between Nicola Tesla and Edison,

19:57 John Westinghouse, who is actually the one that had AC current with Tesla before JP Morgan shorted the stock and bought all the the trade bars. Fine. It's again not its own thing as much as it is a catalyzing piece that everything else is going to sit on sit on top of to enhance its productivity. And as that productivity hybrid changes, things things will evolve just like there's no yellow pages anymore. There'll be something else that'll um that'll come that'll come beyond that. So I believe this is the most interesting and exciting time um to ever be alive for so so many reasons. Um but technology um I think at its best is an extension of humanity. Um I'm going to go through rapid fire questions here. What's the first real estate book every entrepreneur should read or book in general?

20:49 If you're if you're listening to this podcast and you're starting your entrepreneurial journey in real estate um is something that you find to be interesting. I love the first Rich Dad Poor Dad. I read it the first time when as a you know 13-year-old boy, you know, reading that book the first time. um just putting it in a perspective um that I could digest, I could visualize, I could see the difference between making money work for you versus working for money. And then when my father gave me Think and Grow Rich at about 14 or 15 years old, that foundational piece um drew the thing um drew it all together.

21:30 But I think anybody that is on this journey and has an appetite, back to that word of hunger, whatever that means, spending time reading the best novels in the world, pick one. Go back to Huckleberry Finn. I does it. Any book that you that is a book I believe will expand your capacity. What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?

22:01 That I learned was the astronomical price of procrastination. Last question before we close out. The sunb belts or coastal cities, where is the smarter bet right now?

22:15 So, the sunb belt as a region has population migration trends on its side for now. People will migrate to beaches as they have for a variet there's energetic reasons even having your bare feet in sand has a grounding mechanic that you know actually heals your body and there's a certain part of us being salt water and the the way that the waves in the ocean move is by following the moon cuz it's the largest closest thing to it. So waves follow the circle the moon that's the ocean exists. You are a saltwater being. The whole universe and this is what I tell people.

22:51 Stop acting so small. The whole universe is inside of you quite literally. So because of that there is a gravitational pull quite literally to the coast. Why I say the framework matters most real estate investment funds are on sevenyear cycles and with two one-year extensions 7 to nine years. In the 7 to9 year the only place to be is in the sunb belt. Period. Hard stop. But if we had this question on the on the larger debt cycle, people are going to be right on the coast and they're just going to be there. The social issues, California, New York, Mandani is irrelevant because the gravitational, physiological, spiritual pull that we have to oceans will make coastal cities valuable across the world to the end of time.

23:32 I love it. What's your book called? The gift of failure. The first line of the book is, I hope you fail. I hope you fail a lot. That's all I've known how to do. the only thing that I've got really good at at this point in my life is failing. And I promised myself, you know, at Johnny Rockets one day that if I ever got to the other side, um I would tell the truth. And the truth of the matter is that this this life, this experiment experience, which is this life that we're in now, um the other side of the coin is failure. I always say when I get on stage, I'm probably the biggest failure in this room. I just fall forward a lot and I embrace it. Um, I'm going to have you close us out on anything you want to talk about to finish us up.

24:16 Right now at this moment, there's so many things that are going on in the world that are forcing people either to wait because of uncertainty, um, whether economic uncertainty, global uncertainty, there's so many reasons right now. Um, if you read the, um, you know, read the the headlines, which are only designed to draw attention. That's all headlines and all the the the media, I should say, is designed to do. Tik Tok, they're they're buying attention now. There's an algorithm for how much your attention costs. Like literally, um I would take a moment um to close your eyes and sit in silence.

24:52 To close your eyes for a second and sit in that divine silence and listen. All right, you're the man. This has been a pleasure. I need to go sit down and uh close my eyes more.

25:05 Thanks so much for listening to this episode. Like always, we're going to close it out with the Tommy truth, which is a little slice of wisdom from me to you that can help guide you in whatever you're striving towards right now. One of the biggest mistakes I see with young entrepreneurs is they're trying to grow a business into a lifestyle business. What happens is a lot of the people say, "I want these things now. I want to buy a nice house so I got a larger mortgage. I want this nice car so I got a bigger lease or rent payment." And that's a mistake. You should be thinking about the outcome of the company. That's where true generational wealth comes from.

25:35 That's where your mindset should be, not how much money can I extract from this business today as W2 income. So, just remember, build a business that's worth a lot of money. Don't think about getting rich every year based on the draws you're taking from the business. And that's it, guys. We'll talk to you next week.

Questions about this episode

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Tommy Mello (Host), Ari Rastegar (Guest).

What is "Fail Forward: Ari Rastegar on Lessons That Built an Empire in Austin" about?

Ari Rastegar, founder and CEO of Rastagar Capital, shares his unconventional journey from fast food to leading a billion-dollar real estate empire in Austin, highlighting the crucial role of failure as a stepping stone to success. His innovative approach focuses on building recession-resilient assets and prioritizing sustainable growth through unique opportunities, reshaping the landscape of…

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10 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Ari Rastagar, Rastagar Capital, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The e- Myth Revisited, Think and Grow Rich, The Ultimate Sales Machine. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Fail Forward: Ari Rastegar on Lessons That Built an Empire in Austin"?

The episode runs 26 min; the transcript is about 4,824 words in 48 timestamped sections.

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