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The Company That Rents the Internet Its Roads - and Just Bought the Traffic Back
Uniti spent a decade as the landlord of a fiber empire. In 2025 it bought its biggest tenant back, and set out to sell strands of glass to the companies building the AI internet.
The Landlord's Lender: How Arbor Turned Apartment Loans Into a $36 Billion Machine
For four decades Arbor has bet on the least glamorous corner of real estate - the mid-size apartment building - and built a lender that hands owners money on day one and still gets paid a decade later.
Iron Mountain
It began as a Cold War bunker for filing cabinets. Seventy-four years later, the same company that guards your grandmother's insurance records is quietly building the warehouses where AI lives.
Digital Realty
The company you have probably never heard of owns the buildings your favorite apps actually live in. Here is how a REIT born from bankruptcy auctions became the landlord of the AI boom.
Simon Property Group
The obituary for the American mall was written early. Simon Property Group answered with scarce locations, rising rents and a business that now sells retailers space, attention and a reason for shoppers to stay awhile.
Dayna Hathaway
She started at Extra Space Storage buying Yellow Pages ads. Twenty-six years later she runs marketing for the biggest self-storage company in the country.
Lee Sterling
She bet a 3,600-person retail empire on a simple idea: the mall never actually died. It just needed a better story - and a Simple Minds song.
Equinix
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company that designs, builds and operates carrier-neutral colocation data centers - its International Business Exchange (IBX) centers - where enterprises, cloud providers, networks and financial institutions place equipment and interconnect directly with one another. Founded in 1998 on the principle of neutrality, Equinix has grown into the world's largest data center and interconnection platform, operating a programmable network of more than 270 data centers across roughly 75+ markets in 30+ countries. Structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) since 2015, the company pairs physical colocation with software-defined services such as Equinix Fabric, Metal and Network Edge, positioning itself as the meeting place for hybrid multicloud and, increasingly, distributed AI workloads.
William Greenberg
William 'Bill' Greenberg is a theoretical-physicist-turned-financier who runs Two Harbors Investment Corp (rebranded 'Two'), the mortgage REIT whose in-house servicing engine is RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing LLC. He holds a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics and has spent 25+ years managing structured-finance portfolios at Natixis, UBS and the Swiss National Bank's StabFund before joining Two Harbors in 2012 and becoming CEO in 2020. He pushed the company to bring mortgage servicing in-house by acquiring RoundPoint in 2023, then steered the firm through a high-profile 2025-2026 takeover battle that ended with UWM Holdings agreeing to buy the company.