Codie A. Sanchez

Founder, Entrepreneur, Author | Learn how to build a more profitable, less painful business... | Come for the book, stay for 1million+ in giveaways. Sept 18th

Austin, Texas, United States

About

On a mission to create financially free and free-thinking humans. I founded a advisory and investment company called Contrarian Thinking that helps owners buy and scale businesses. Our newsletter has over 1M+ weekly readers, here → contrarianthinking.biz/li Our community has taught 9,000+ members biz buying, biz growing, and doing deals. We value experience over degrees. Betting on yourself over building someone else's dream. Main Street over Wall Street. My mission is less suits, more boots. Meaning: we the people holding the power… and the purse strings. 🔗Join 1M+ others who get our free newsletter: contrarianthinking.biz/li 🔗YouTube: @CodieSanchezCT 🔗Instagram: @codiesanchez 🔗Twitter: @Codie_Sanchez 🔗Weekly business-buying newsletter Main Street Minute: contrarianthinking.biz/minute-li

Experience

  • Founder - Investor - Writer at Contrarian Thinking
    Dec 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

    Opportunity is found in the disconnect between narrative and the truth. CT is where hundreds of thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, and contrarians come to learn about unconventional ways to diversify income, generate wealth, and increase profits. Join here ↓ www.contrarianthinking.co

  • Co-Founder at Unconventional Acquisitions
    2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    We buy, sell and invest in small businesses and teach others how to get into the ownership seat.

  • Entourage Effect Capital (2 yrs 11 mos)
    • EEC Advisory Board Member
      Mar 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Managing Director - Partner
      May 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

      EEC is one of the first Growth Equity firms in the cannabis industry, we’ve invested $150 million in cannabis since 2014

  • Head of Latin America Investments at First Trust
    Mar 2014 - May 2019 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    I head the Latin America & US Offshore Investment Business, providing investments and market strategy to enable some of the worlds leading pensions, institutions and advisors to reach their investment goals. We've built a business from the ground up, to one of the fastest growing firms in LatAm.

  • Director Institutional Sales at State Street
    Jul 2011 - Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Worked in Latin America and the US with Fortune 500 Companies, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, endowments, and foundations to manage their investment portfolios. We navigated some treacherous regulations and industry changes to raise billions in previously uncovered markets.