#353 - Chris Powers & Jason Baxter - Foster: How Fort Is Harnessing The Power of Advanced Data & Artificial Intelligence

The Fort - An Entrepreneurship Podcast

I couldn’t be more excited to release today’s episode that shares in great detail how Fort is thinking about and using AI. Jason and I discuss our proprietary operating system, FOS, and how we’re leveraging AI to build Fort's next chapter. We’ve been building this technology for years and now the fun really begins.

Jason Baxter joined Fort in 2015, bringing more than 25 years of real estate industry experience, an acute passion for entrepreneurship, and a vision for transforming big ideas into reality. As Chief Executive Officer/President, Jason oversees Fort’s strategic vision and execution of acquisitions, finances, and annual planning. In addition, Jason oversees the Fort Leadership Team and Investment Committee.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur with 19 years of real estate development and investment experience. He founded Fort and to date, the company has invested over $2.1B in Class B industrial, commercial, multifamily, student housing, and land development projects throughout the state of Texas and the Sunbelt. In 2016, Chris made the decision to focus on Class B Industrial full time and that is where the firm has dedicated the majority of its resources since.

On this episode, Chris and Jason discuss:

• Finding a single source of truth
• Building Fort’s AI thesis
• Examples of Foster at work

Links:

Fort in the WallStreet Journal - Harnessing the Power of Advanced Data

FOS Overview

Foster Overview

Fort: https://bit.ly/FortCompanies

Follow Fort on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-companies/

Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:00:42) - The importance of technology

(00:05:00) - Finding the single source of truth

(00:09:24) - Building Fort’s AI thesis

(00:11:48) - How the world uses AI vs. how Fort uses AI

(00:18:15) - Examples of Foster at work

(00:28:35) - What does Foster think Foster is?

(00:31:46) - Why does all this matter?

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