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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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The Land Nobody Wanted in 1991 Is Now a 1.8-Gigawatt Bet
Enterprise · Logistics · Hardware

The Land Nobody Wanted in 1991 Is Now a 1.8-Gigawatt Bet

Leon Backes started Provident by buying land nobody wanted from failed savings-and-loans. Thirty-plus years and $7.5 billion later, the same patient-money playbook is building a 5,000-acre town and one of Texas's largest data center campuses.

real-estate · real-estate-developmentRead →
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The Company That Gets Paid When Everyone Else Gives Up
Fintech · Enterprise · Vc

The Company That Gets Paid When Everyone Else Gives Up

Founded on the wreckage of a family business, Hilco Global built a $1 billion enterprise by answering one unglamorous question better than anyone: what is this stuff really worth?

asset-valuation · asset-monetizationRead →
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The Power Plants Nobody Wants - Until the Grid Needs Them
Vc · Climate

The Power Plants Nobody Wants - Until the Grid Needs Them

Rockland Capital built a private equity strategy around the awkward middle of the energy transition: keeping the grid reliable while cleaner power scales. Its edge is not a new technology, but an operator's appetite for complicated assets.

energy-private-equity · power-infrastructureRead →