#219: From Franchise Consultant to Tech Startup Co-Founder with Joshua Emison, USNA ‘14

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“I helped several veterans in franchising start businesses that they otherwise would not have found and do things that are good for their communities, but this is a way where I’m helping potentially hundreds, thousands, millions of people through the type of lending and investing that Sansbank is doing so I thought I’d go for it.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Josh Emison (USNA ‘14)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josh Emison is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sansbank, a tech startup on a mission to democratize commercial real estate investing to allow anyone to receive passive income. Through an innovative cashflow tokenization process, Sansbank grants property owners cash advances against future profits. Property owners receive capital and maintain equity while investors participate in the offering by lending $100 tokens granting them fractionalized monthly preferred return payments. Prior to founding Sansbank, Josh served in the U.S. Marine Corps and owned a successful veteran franchise consulting business.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Josh transitioned from being a successful franchise consultant to becoming the co-founder of a tech startup </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Sansbank approaches due diligence and secures loans</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the blockchain is, how it works and how Sansbank uses it to automate compliance</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What Sansbank’s ideal pilot property looks like</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Advice and encouragement for anyone looking to make a career change</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josh shares how a story