Dutch maintains that the Survival Project is and will always be about family , God , and country . He ' s proud of his opportunity to come from a poor upbringing and rise to the top of the country ' s real estate market and education sector . " I remember days when we had electricity but no gas , and I remember heating water up in the microwave so we could bathe ," he said .
Now , as a thought leader having broken through the class system , he and his company have grown and invested carefully during these uncertain times . " Twelve months ago , nobody saw COVID coming . You can sit here and say , ' Well , they plan for pandemics ,' but did you or me as an everyday , average American ever see wearing masks in public everywhere we go , pulling our kids
" Twelve months ago , nobody saw COVID coming ... We ' re the first fund I know of that did a coronavirus amendment to the SEC in February ."
Brandon " Dutch " Mendenhall
out of school , and everything else that goes along with it ?"
Now , Dutch and his team are thriving when other companies are tanking during the coronavirus pandemic . " We ' re the first fund I
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know of that did a coronavirus amendment to the SEC in February ," he said . The team got the paperwork done quickly , which in turn guaranteed their investors money .
Dutch is also fiercely protective of every investor with this company and the select group of close members called the Inner Circle .
He recently had an investor come to him with an emergency whose natural withdrawal was not for another six months . " We sent him a wire this morning because that is what we needed to do for him in that case . He was in a bad situation , and all of a sudden , there was an emergency . That ' s how we look at things ," he said . Dutch and his team continue to prepare for a changing world and the challenges it presents . It ' s always good to have a Plan B .
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