45: Business Trends and Insights for 2021 with Joel Block

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to be speaking today with Joel Block, a rock star in the worlds of speaking, finance, and real estate! Joel has a background as a venture capitalist, a CPA, and in real estate. He is also an entrepreneur and a board member of the National Speakers Association. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we focus on what will be coming up in 2021. We discuss the changes and trends that Joel foresees and who he thinks will own the assets in the future. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope that you will enjoy this very interesting and thought-provoking conversation and benefit from Joel’s knowledge as much as we did! </span></p> <p><strong>Joel Block’s bio </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel Block’s CPA experience started in 1985 at PriceWaterhouse, where he first got exposed to the syndication business as a team member doing tax returns for 500 real estate limited partnership syndications. While he did not love the tax work, he was fascinated by the partnership agreements.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Futurist and money business insider, Joel’s a long-time venture capitalist and hedge fund manager (gobbledygook for a professional investor) who lives in a Shark Tank world like on TV. Since selling his publishing company to a Fortune 500 company, Joel keynotes conferences, sharing Wall Street insights that supercharge stakeholder value with growth strategies and the inside track on ways to accelerate innovation so companies can compete better, faster, and smarter. Joel’s goal is to empower business executives and their teams to “Disrupt Their Competitors’ Future”.</span></p> <p><strong>Joel’s background</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Joel started in the CPA business, he was a terrible fit and did not like it at all. The last account he worked on at PriceWaterhouse was a giant company that was raising money from investors, and he decided that he wanted to be a dealmaker, ju