Ben Lapidus

Chief Executive and Co-founder of Playground and Best Ever Conference, the premier trade group for alternative asset syndication. Ben previously built Spartan Investment Group from scratch to $70M in annual revenue as the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Investments for over $400M of acquisitions and $250M of debt, acquiring more than 3M sf of self-storage across 14 states. Before Spartan, Ben founded and sold a multi-million dollar study abroad company and worked with several start-ups through IPO or acquisition. All in, he's built 7 businesses and failed twice. He graduated from Rutgers University with dual degrees in Finance and Economics where he founded the Rutgers Entrepreneurial Society.

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