Craig Hatkoff, Real Estate Pioneer, Innovation Expert & CoFounder Of The Tribeca Film Festival

The Release Podcast

Craig Hatkoff is a real estate investor who pioneered the concept of asset securitization back in the 1990s at Chemical Bank, and then became Vice Chairman of Capital Trust which he cofounded alongside the legendary billionaire Sam Zell. He is also a board member for more than 15 private and public companies as varied as Colony Capital, SL Green, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and even the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A some time Columbia professor on the topic of Disruptive Innovation, he worked closely with the famed late HBS luminary Clayton Christensen and eventually also cofounded the Disruptor Awards. Along the way he found some time to launch a media company and become a bestselling author of children’s books, alongside his two daughters. But what Craig is most popularly known for is his role as a cofounder, alongside Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal, of the Tribeca Film Festival. And it wasn’t started for the reasons you think. Versatile doesn’t begin to describe Craig. There are so many adjectives.On today’s podcast, we start off with the lightbulb moment of his youth, when he was almost but not quite fired from a finance job out of business school…and whether it was cluelessness or arrogance that got him there. We talk about the time when has was one of Donald Trump’s bankers, the guitar collection that reminds him of the path not taken, and the way he thinks today, about religion. Turns out that’s ripe for disruption, too. Listen to the end for the lightning round, where Craig reveals what he would be doing, had he not stumbled onto business school somehow, all those decades ago. It’s not what you’d think, and on some level, aren’t we all still who we were back in the seventh grade? #tribecafilmfestival #claytonchristensen #disruptiveinnovation #slgreen #disney #shareholder #boardmember #innovation #religion #robertdeniro #podcast #banking #realestate #securitiesandexchangecommission