What this episode teaches an operator: how discipline transfers across careers, and how a pro skateboarder built a brewery exit and then a $160M real estate fund.
Mikey Taylor rode professional skateboarding into entrepreneurship: co-founding Saint Archer Brewing and exiting to MillerCoors in three and a half years, then moving from passive real estate investor to active fund manager. Today his platform manages roughly $160M with thousands of storage units, and the Commune Capital merger created a $160M fund with 500 investors. He and Abel Pacheco dig into the mindset that survives a market crisis and the math behind sustaining income long after the first career ends.
In this episode: What did skateboarding teach about money that school never did? How did Saint Archer go from idea to exit in 3.5 years? Why storage as an asset class? What changes moving from passive checks to running the fund? How do you keep emotion out of investment decisions?
Three takeaways: the first career is the seed capital for the second. Passive investing is the apprenticeship for fund management. Emotion and discipline decide outcomes when markets shake.
"Emotion and discipline, that is the game here." - Mikey Taylor
Connect with Mikey: Commune Capital.
Abel Pacheco helps operators get the ideas out of their head and into an AI operating system that runs the business, so one operator can run like a team of five. If you're ready to install it, not just learn it: www.5talents.ai. Multifamily investors: www.5talents.ai/multifamily. Host of the 5 Talents Podcast.