Episode 107: Jeffry “J.J.” Clausen Jr. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjclausen/) has worked in commercial real estate, venture capital and investment banking and is focused on synthesizing his disparate experience, personal life journey and acquired knowledge to apply the venturesome spirit of the private sector into the transitioning state of the public sector.

Choosing academia at a later stage in life to complete his personal cycles of self-validation, JJ is currently a first-generation student conducting research with the economics departments at University of South Florida and New College on commercial real estate valuation methods, repo rates, and financial instrument architecture.

To quote the C.P. Cavafy’s poem, JJ is on his own “road to Ithaca” (quite literally to Cornell) where it is full of triumph, tragedy, adventure, and discovery.

Ithaka, by C. P. Cavafy

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec

"The real estate market index.”

https://www.kysq.org/pubs/REMI_Final.pdf

Silicon Valley etiquette

https://medium.com/@romainserman/silicon-valley-etiquette-6934cf6f8f73