Construction runs on thin margins and thick piles of paperwork. Xpedeon’s three-decade wager is that the site, the supply chain and the finance office should stop arguing from different spreadsheets.

Before CapitalX, Eric Cheng learned service in the air, sales on the ground and timing in the property market. His career is a study in how an operator carries the same instincts into new rooms.

A philosophy graduate became a corporate lawyer, then traded documents for distressed apartments. Two decades later, his operating lesson is still the same: the deal only works when somebody owns the untidy middle.
Two lawyers learned real estate by fixing the properties other buyers avoided. Twenty-three years later, their Austin-based firm is applying the same control-every-step playbook to apartments, historic mills and a 4,000-capacity music venue.
Alirio Torrealba spent 25 years selling Fords and Kias in Venezuela. Then he moved to Miami and started building the kind of Coral Gables that George Merrick sketched a century ago - boutique, Mediterranean, and now worth half a billion dollars.