My guest today is Tony Cardoza, a principal and Managing Director of Cityview which is a vertically integrated institutional asset manager and multifamily developer based out of L.A. Tony has over 20 years of experience in real estate. Prior to Cityview he helped acquire and develop 5,000 units for Real Estate Capital Partners, he also spent time at Prometheus in a land and multifamily acquisitions role. Tony holds a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.​

While I only know Tony in the professional sense, I consider him a friend and I think you’ll see why that might be. His personality is undoubtedly an asset for his acquisitions role.

This pod’s a bit technical, and Tony’s saying a lot in short periods of time. I really tried to open up his thinking around the entire topic of development to show not just how complex it is, but how top-tier developers think about the component parts of the business.

Welcome everyone to episode 22 of Offshoot. My guest today is Matt Beaudreau.

In 2017, Matt founded his first school in California, eventually opening or helping to open many more. In 2021 Matt co-founded Apogee Strong with his partner, Tim Kennedy. With a mission of reseeding sovereignty and freedom by disrupting education. Apogee has gone on to create mentorship programs for men, women, and teens, helped to launch over 100 K-12 campuses, and created 2 non-profit foundations to support families with increasing their education. As a Keynote Speaker, Consultant, and Coach to organizations around the world, Matt's clients range from Wells Fargo, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin to American Eagle, Cedars-Sinai and the United States Air Force and he has spoken from the stage to over 250,000 people across the world.

Matt and Tim want to change the world by helping kids (and adults) get on a growth path to discover a more authentic education than one-size-fits-all public schooling, so that they can excel at what they want to be and express. 

Listen in as we cover topics that include:

The entire idea of sovereignty, or self-governance, and what that means to Matt and Apogee.

What education is, could be, and perhaps should be.

How almost all of us have been deeply indoctrinated into the religion that is public schooling.

Matt’s background and how he came to this. Hint: this wasn’t part of the plan.

The core skills that form the foundation of any educational process.

How to run the business of a physical school, or place of leadership, which is the paradigm he prefers to use when thinking about Apogee K-12 schools.

How to think about the price of education when the public-school alternative is free.

What critical thinking is, and how it’s generally lacking.

Why the entire notion of all subjects, taught to all the people, at the same time is a fairly absurd notion.

How Apogee students think about universities, and how universities think about these alternative education students.

Why Apogee is really an investment in the human spirit, or the human condition, and our innate desire to grow and learn.

The challenges of enrolling parents into these schools, without losing center.

I loved this conversation, even though it is way out of my day to day. I hope you do too.

Welcome everyone to episode 22 of Offshoot. My guest today is Matt Beaudreau.

In 2017, Matt founded his first school in California, eventually opening or helping to open many more. In 2021 Matt co-founded Apogee Strong with his partner, Tim Kennedy. With a mission of reseeding sovereignty and freedom by disrupting education. Apogee has gone on to create mentorship programs for men, women, and teens, helped to launch over 100 K-12 campuses, and created 2 non-profit foundations to support families with increasing their education. As a Keynote Speaker, Consultant, and Coach to organizations around the world, Matt's clients range from Wells Fargo, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin to American Eagle, Cedars-Sinai and the United States Air Force and he has spoken from the stage to over 250,000 people across the world.

Matt and Tim want to change the world by helping kids (and adults) get on a growth path to discover a more authentic education than one-size-fits-all public schooling, so that they can excel at what they want to be and express. 

Listen in as we cover topics that include:

The entire idea of sovereignty, or self-governance, and what that means to Matt and Apogee.

What education is, could be, and perhaps should be.

How almost all of us have been deeply indoctrinated into the religion that is public schooling.

Matt’s background and how he came to this. Hint: this wasn’t part of the plan.

The core skills that form the foundation of any educational process.

How to run the business of a physical school, or place of leadership, which is the paradigm he prefers to use when thinking about Apogee K-12 schools.

How to think about the price of education when the public-school alternative is free.

What critical thinking is, and how it’s generally lacking.

Why the entire notion of all subjects, taught to all the people, at the same time is a fairly absurd notion.

How Apogee students think about universities, and how universities think about these alternative education students.

Why Apogee is really an investment in the human spirit, or the human condition, and our innate desire to grow and learn.

The challenges of enrolling parents into these schools, without losing center.

I loved this conversation, even though it is way out of my day to day. I hope you do too.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to Offshoot and Matt Beaudreau

(03:49) What Is Apogee? Disrupting Education for Freedom

(08:17) The Problem with Traditional Education: Schools vs. Learning

(11:57) The Purpose of Education: Growth, Sovereignty and Self-Governance

(21:11) The Arrogance of Traditional Curriculum: Knowledge vs. Skills

(27:48) Matt's Journey: From Stanford to Educational Revolutionary

(35:16) Education as Transfer of a Way of Life: Partnering with Parents

(42:09) The Business of Running an Apogee School: Beyond "Free" Public Education

(49:10) Overcoming Challenges: Real Estate, Regulation, and the "Religion of Schooling"

(50:50) How Apogee Students View University: Tool vs. Destination