WITH TWO SEVENS CAPITAL By DC Rutherford
To say the past year has been strange would be an understatement to end all understatements. Heading into our second summer and fall of the COVID-19 pandemic demands that we reevaluate our collective wants and needs. After a period marred by isolation and separation, lockdowns and letdowns, many of us are coming out the other side with new commitments – to family, to friends, to community, and to the future. Once an inevitability built on hubris and a sense of immortality, now the fragility of our existence has led to an existential reckoning: How do we provide for our futures in a way that embraces both value and values? How do we build wealth in a world that has just threatened unimaginable tragedy? Adam Batstone has a few ideas.
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The founder and CEO of Oakville-based Two Sevens Capital aspires to “transform access to wealth creation,” no small feat even during a normal year, but an enormous undertaking given the unprecedented threat to the global economy brought on by the pandemic. But even a brief conversation with Batstone will have you believe that his – and your – dreams are possible.