Ray Dalio recently talked about this AI boom feels a little bit like 1999.com boom.

Yes, yes.

Listen, there are many, many more smarter guys and girls than us, right?

And a lot of people are very kind of nervous and concerned.

Yes, there's a great AI revolution and it's incredible. But it feels

like, you know, it's a war with China. It's a race to superintelligence, whatever you want to

call it. One way or the other, it's going to be tremendous benefits. But at some point, people

are paying prices that are insane. And the worst part is market is so heavy in the max seven. I don't know,

30 or 40% of the S&P 500 at max 7. And the top 10 is, I think, 40% in the top 7, like 30%. It's insane. Hello, everybody's Jake Tons.

I host Jake Jito Podcasts here with my co-hosts, a multifamily mentor, the coach, Chef, Father Six, the bestselling author, The G Daddy.

Gino Barbera, how's it going?

Jake, I'm doing good, brother.

How you doing?

It never gets old, does it? You just love that. I know you do. I do love it. I do love it. Always making it happen, big man. Today's guest is the CEO of TF Management Group LLC with over 16 years of real estate investing experience and a full-time focus in the space since 2009. He's got two years on us, Gino,

old-timer here. Before transitioning to real estate, he had a successful career as a mathematician

and technology professor. So, without further ado, Mike Slotnick, welcome to show.

Thank you, Jake. Thank you, Gina. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. Okay. So I want to hear a little bit about the mathematician. I guess you were teaching math in college or something. And then you said, hey, this is this is not enough money. I'm going to go make some bank. Or what's the story there?

So let me start with this. I grew up in the former Soviet Union and like James Bond movie, people say from Russia would love, but I'm not from Russia. I'm from Moldova, just to be very clear. So it came in 1999 before the Soviet Union collapsed and the Soviet Union collapse. I'm a U.S. educated. I have a degree in mathematics from upstate New York in Binghamton, New York.

I actually settled originally in Rochester, New York, then moved later.

We didn't even talk about this. I grew up just south of there.

Well, love upstate New York. It's a wonderful country. It's a very... A lot like Russia.

Right.

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