Business
Dax Cooke is the the Founder of Farmfolio. After graduating from the University of Alabama, Dax entered the wide world of financial services, where he successfully founded and exited multiple startups. In 2014, after spending a decade in the financial services industry and co-founding an INC 500 Fin-Tech company, Dax moved to Panama City, Panama, where he developed a passion for agriculture and the Farmfolio concept was born. After visiting Colombia in 2015, Dax moved the company to Medellín and launched the first Farmfolio office in the famed Ruta N incubator. Farmfolio set out with the goal of creating value throughout the agriculture supply chain by connecting stakeholders around the world to unique opportunities in emerging markets. Dax follows a strict process-based business strategy which stems from his financial planning background. Here are the questions from the podcast: Is agriculture a non-market correlated assets? How do you operate your business? What do you see would be the impact of COVID-19 on real estate and especially agriculture? Would you be changing any business or investment strategy after Coronavirus? What are the risks and how do you insure against them? Favorite real estate/finance or any other related book? Have you improved your business recently and how? How do you give back?