Onward, a Fundrise Production

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Onward is a podcast from America's largest direct-to-investor alternative asset investment platform, Fundrise. Onward offers unique insights and perspectives from company co-founder and CEO Ben Miller and guests.

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Onward, a Fundrise Production episodes:

05.29.2024
36: Breakthroughs in military technology: Lessons from history and future implications
Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize warfare and reshape geopolitics. Professor Andrew Wilson, professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College, explores the transformative power of military technology throughout history and its implications for the future. In this episode...
05.15.2024
35: The 5 patterns of technology breakthroughs
Although each major technology wave is unique—mainframes, the personal computer, internet, mobile, cloud, and now AI—the way they have played out has been surprisingly consistent. The core financial, product, and economic patterns repeat each innovation cycle and help define which...
03.15.2024
34: Race against recession: growth vs. debts in America
Two roads diverged before the US. One the way of growth and the other the way of a debt spiral. In this episode, Cardiff Garcia and Ben Miller look at the state of US dynamism vs. indebtedness, and the narrow...
02.06.2024
33: On the state of housing, with economist Ali Wolf
On the latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Ali Wolf, Chief Economist at Zonda and one of the smartest people we know for analyzing and understanding housing and the economy. As we’re still in the...
12.30.2023
32: Buying the bottom
In this final Onward episode of 2023 co-hosts Cardiff Garcia and Fundrise CEO Ben Miller kick things off by discussing Ben’s major market call: The conclusion that the real estate market has hit bottom. After 18 months of escalating interest...
12.07.2023
31: Building a $1B startup without ego, with Christina Cacioppo
In the modern tech landscape, there are few topics more critical — or, unfortunately, more frequently overlooked and misunderstood by laypeople — than data security. Luckily Vanta has developed a revolutionary solution for how other companies can address the problem...
11.29.2023
30: What happens when there’s no money in real estate markets
People outside of the real estate investment industry may be unaware, but the market is currently navigating a period of turbulence comparable to what it experienced during the 2008 financial crisis, with cap rates and pricing down as much as...
11.17.2023
29: The largest developer in LA, Rick Caruso
Rick Caruso’s real estate projects have defined how a generation of LA residents live in and experience the city. When you truly collaborate with communities, Rick explains, you get more than reliable financial success — you get momentum behind your...
10.18.2023
28: Investing in AI, with Tomasz Tunguz
As our host, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller, observes in this latest episode of Onward, the amount of hype surrounding AI has become extraordinary… to the point that it’s become difficult for many people to distinguish the reality of its potential...
09.29.2023
27: Understanding AI and its implications
As artificial intelligence has dominated headlines over the past year, it’s become increasingly critical for everybody to understand AI, due to its likelihood to impact each and every one of us. In this latest episode of Onward, join Fundrise CEO...
08.25.2023
26: The Insider's Lobbyist: How lobbying really works, with David Carmen
In our latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by David Carmen, founder of the Carmen Group and one of the top lobbyists in the nation. He has worked on some of the most important issues of...
08.18.2023
25: The Big Bang: The origin of modern real estate and banking
In this latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and co-host Cardiff Garcia give us a tour of the economic landscape that was once the status quo: a world where local lending institutions called S&Ls; — or thrifts —...
07.05.2023
24: The case for a recession
In the latest episode of Onward, Ben and Cardiff work through one of the most confounding questions currently poised for the economy: What do we make of two seemingly contradictory data sets, where one is telling us that the economy...
05.15.2023
23: Debt ceiling crises, with Noreen Harrington
Noreen Harrington’s background in finance has involved working on everything from running Treasuries for Goldman Sachs to helping manage the creation of the Euro. In this latest episode of Onward, she joins Fundrise CEO Ben Miller to help us better...
05.05.2023
22: The case for optimism, with Cardiff Garcia
If you’ve listened to Onward regularly, you know that Fundrise’s CEO Ben Miller has been a perennial contrarian when it comes to assessing the outlook for the economy, especially as markets have overheated and behaved irrationally. So, this latest episode...
04.18.2023
21: Bonus Episode: The fundamental nature of the universe, with Amanda Gefter
In this bonus episode, our host Ben Miller interviews a special guest, the science writer Amanda Gefter, to discuss some of the most intriguing and consistently mind-blowing ideas from her book about cutting-edge physics and cosmology, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn....
04.03.2023
20: The Cascade, the Great Deleveraging’s next chapter
In the weeks since Silvergate, Signature, and Silicon Valley Banks’ respective failures, observers around the world have found ways to classify each collapse as the result of specific, isolated circumstances. But our hosts at Onward see something much different: a...
03.17.2023
19: How we broke the British pound, with Rob Johnson
In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week, Onward host and Fundrise CEO Ben Miller sits down for an interview with the economist and trader Rob Johnson, one of the most experienced investors in the world at the...
03.01.2023
18: The $50B contrarian, Ira Lubert
When it comes to ambitious investing, many people make the mistake of chasing glory and fame — at the expense of sound judgment and real financial results. But not Ira Lubert, chairman and co-founder of Independence Capital Partners and Lubert...
02.10.2023
17: Inside the VC playbook — After a tech bubble collapse
Mind games and “dirty term sheets.” These are the kinds of potential pitfalls that await tech entrepreneurs and employees in the financial landscape of 2023, especially those particularly in need of fresh infusions of venture capital. In this latest episode...
01.20.2023
16: On the state of the market, with the creator of a $1T financial innovation, Schecky Schechner
Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Schecky Schechner, Managing Director and Co-Head of US Real Estate Banking at Barclays Capital, for a wide-ranging and technically insightful conversation in this latest episode of Onward. As Ben points out, Schecky is...
01.14.2023
15: The largest real estate developer in the world, Steve Ross
In the latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller gives us the opportunity to listen in on a conversation with one of the most experienced and influential figures in real estate today: Steve Ross, the largest real estate developer...
12.30.2022
14: Year-End Performance in Depth & Investment Strategies for 2023
In anticipation of the upcoming publication of Fundrise’s 2022 year-end letter to investors, CEO Ben Miller is once again joined by Kendall Davis, Head of Investor Relations and Investor Operations, for an in-depth analysis and conversation about the Fundrise portfolio’s...
12.19.2022
13: Forecasts for 2023: Scenarios, Systems, and Pattern Recognition
Join your Onward co-hosts, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and Cardiff Garcia, to wrap up 2022 in the same way we started it: with a session of scenario planning. Ben and Cardiff each share their predictions for what the next year might...
12.13.2022
12: Owner-Developer of the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein
Join Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise, for a conversation with a very special guest on this episode of Onward: Larry Silverstein is the founder and chairman of Silverstein Properties, the owner-developer of the World Trade Center, along with a remarkable...
11.28.2022
11: Bonus Episode: Investor Q&A November 2022
This week, we have a special treat from Onward: our first bonus episode, dedicated entirely to discussing and answering important questions about Fundrise, sourced directly from Fundrise investors. Kendall Davis, head of investor relations and investor operations, joins Ben Miller,...
11.14.2022
10: The Great Deleveraging, a Fundrise market analysis
For months, the hosts of Onward — Ben Miller, Fundrise CEO, and Cardiff Garcia — have discussed the many ways that the current, high inflation environment will impact the broader economy and behavior of investors. In this latest episode, Ben...
11.04.2022
9: Why financial history matters, with Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management
In this month’s episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Ben Carlson, Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, for a wide-ranging discussion that offers fresh, critical thoughts on the state of the market, plus...
10.17.2022
8: You can’t fight the Fed
As inflation lingers at historical highs, the Fed remains set on taming it, ratcheting up interest rates and inviting a recession. In this new episode of Onward, Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise, and co-host Cardiff Garcia do a new round...
09.15.2022
7: Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal (VCs and hosts of Acquired): Top investment lessons, what makes the best tech companies, and more
What separates investments in the very best companies from the rest? In this month’s episode of Onward, CEO Ben Miller is joined by the hosts of Acquired, a podcast that looks into the stories and playbooks of history’s greatest companies,...
08.18.2022
6: Building homes for rent
In this month’s episode of Onward, CEO Ben Miller and co-host Cardiff Garcia are joined by Fundrise COO Brandon Jenkins to discuss one of the most exciting and fast-growing segments of Fundrise’s real estate investment strategy: built-for-rent single-family housing. Plus,...
07.18.2022
5: Transforming Venture Capital
In this month’s episode, we have something a bit different than our typical programming: Fundrise CEO Ben Miller talks with co-host Cardiff Garcia about a big announcement – the Fundrise Innovation Fund, a brand new investment product and our entry...
06.15.2022
4: The incoming recession
Coming off a week where inflation hit a 40-year high and consumer sentiment came in at a record low, Ben Miller talks with co-host Cardiff Garcia about our perspective on how we think about navigating an increasingly unpredictable macroeconomic environment...
05.17.2022
3: The future of private equity
Today, Ben Miller and Cardiff Garcia dive deep into the past, present, and future of the private equity industry, including how it grew to become so powerful and why it may be ripe for disruption. If you've ever wanted to better...
03.30.2022
2: On inflation and uncertainty
On this episode, Ben Miller, co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, is joined by Cardiff Garcia, co-founder of Bazaar Audio and host of the economics-focused podcast The New Bazaar (after spending many years as the co-creator and co-host of NPR's The...
12.11.2021
1: Pilot
In the premiere episode co-hosts Ben Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Fundrise, and Emily Peck, Content Director at Fundrise, dive into Fundrise’s Q3 performance — “an overnight success years in the making.” Ben explains why the company is investing in...

What's Onward, a Fundrise Production about?

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Onward, a Fundrise Production episodes:

36: Breakthroughs in military technology: Lessons from history and future implications

35: The 5 patterns of technology breakthroughs

34: Race against recession: growth vs. debts in America

33: On the state of housing, with economist Ali Wolf

32: Buying the bottom

31: Building a $1B startup without ego, with Christina Cacioppo

30: What happens when there’s no money in real estate markets

29: The largest developer in LA, Rick Caruso

28: Investing in AI, with Tomasz Tunguz

27: Understanding AI and its implications

26: The Insider's Lobbyist: How lobbying really works, with David Carmen

25: The Big Bang: The origin of modern real estate and banking

24: The case for a recession

23: Debt ceiling crises, with Noreen Harrington

22: The case for optimism, with Cardiff Garcia

21: Bonus Episode: The fundamental nature of the universe, with Amanda Gefter

20: The Cascade, the Great Deleveraging’s next chapter

19: How we broke the British pound, with Rob Johnson

18: The $50B contrarian, Ira Lubert

17: Inside the VC playbook — After a tech bubble collapse

16: On the state of the market, with the creator of a $1T financial innovation, Schecky Schechner

15: The largest real estate developer in the world, Steve Ross

14: Year-End Performance in Depth & Investment Strategies for 2023

13: Forecasts for 2023: Scenarios, Systems, and Pattern Recognition

12: Owner-Developer of the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein

11: Bonus Episode: Investor Q&A November 2022

10: The Great Deleveraging, a Fundrise market analysis

9: Why financial history matters, with Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management

8: You can’t fight the Fed

7: Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal (VCs and hosts of Acquired): Top investment lessons, what makes the best tech companies, and more

6: Building homes for rent

5: Transforming Venture Capital

4: The incoming recession

3: The future of private equity

2: On inflation and uncertainty

1: Pilot

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