ZACH KOSTUROS —
THE INVESTOR'S APPROACH.
Most people are pursuing the right goals with the wrong approach.
The results we get in our investments, businesses, relationships, and lives are shaped less by what we want than by the approach we bring to creating them.
After two decades of building businesses, stewarding more than $1 billion of commercial real estate, and investing across public and private markets, I've become convinced that better outcomes begin with a better approach.
This is where I explore that approach.
THE PRINCIPLE –
OUTCOMES ARE DOWNSTREAM FROM THE APPROACH.
Change the approach. Change the result.
WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT HOW TO...
01
Earn
02
Spend
03
Save
04
Borrow
05
Consume
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Speculate
VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE EVER TAUGHT THE INVESTOR'S APPROACH.
FOUR APPROACHES –
EVERY DECISION STARTS WITH AN APPROACH.
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CONSUMER
CONSUMES VALUE
Lives for today.
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SAVER
PROTECTS VALUE
Avoids risk.
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SPECULATOR
CHASES VALUE
Looks for shortcuts.
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INVESTOR
CREATES VALUE
Cultivates potential.
BETTER OUTCOMES BEGIN WITH A BETTER APPROACH.
THE INVESTOR'S APPROACH –
THE ARENA CHANGES. THE APPROACH DOESN'T.
I started studying investing to understand how wealth is actually created.
I stayed because the principles I learned affected everything else.
THE SAME PRINCIPLES LEAD TO...
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Long Term Wealth
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Thriving Businesses
03
Healthy Families
04
Strong Communities
05
Healthy Bodies
07
Deep Faith
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Meaningful Lives
EXPLORE –
FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION.
The Investor's Approach doesn't just live on this page.
I'm continually exploring it on social media.
START WATCHING –
THE INVESTOR'S APPROACH IN ACTION.
Every week I explore real investments, businesses, decisions, and questions through the lens of The Investor's Approach.
WHERE I APPLY IT –
I DON'T JUST TEACH THIS APPROACH, I LIVE IT.
I've spent my career investing, building businesses, leading teams, raising a family, and making decisions where the outcomes matter.
The Investor's Approach wasn't created on a whiteboard.
It emerged from real decisions, real trials, and real outcomes.
UPSYDE
VENTURES
Intelligently investing in assets with quantifiable upside, where we have an operational edge, alongside our investment partners.
PRIME
LOCATIONS
Operating over $750 million of commercial and multi-family property for ourselves and others, as well as brokering investment transactions.
MONOLITH
CONSTRUCTION
Developing and redeveloping commercial, multi-family, and high-end residential properties in markets we are actively investing in.
A GROWING
FAMILY
My wife and I got married in 2003, when I was just 20 years old, and we are about to welcome our sixth child into our family.
ABOUT –
I'VE BEEN USING THIS APPROACH FOR MOST OF MY LIFE.
Long before I learned to value an asset, I was fascinated by a simple question:
Why do some people consistently experience better outcomes than others?
That question led me into investing, business, leadership, and stewardship.
Over the last twenty years, I've tested those ideas by building businesses, investing across public and private markets, and stewarding more than $1 billion of commercial real estate.
Again and again, I've found the same thing:
Better outcomes begin with a better approach.
That's what I'm here to explore.
GET STARTED –
LEARN THE INVESTOR'S APPROACH.
Discover the principles behind better investing, and how they apply far beyond money.
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