From Coconut Plantations to Swiss Real Estate: Lessons in Freedom from Alex Ostergaard

Why Alex skipped college to study Mises instead

Join us for a deep-dive conversation with Alex Østergaard, asset manager for SWISS, a publicly listed property investment firm rooted in the values of Austrian economics, low time preference, and radical personal responsibility.

Alex didn’t go to college - he studied Human Action instead. Raised on a steady diet of Mises, Rothbard, and Maltz (via his father's Sunday school-style “Gentleman’s Club”), Alex shares how applying sound theory - rather than chasing trends - shaped everything from his mindset to the long-term structure of the investment firm that his father co-founded and Alex is invested in.

In this episode, we explore:

  • Why “to know and not to do is really not to know”

  • The power of studying original thinkers vs. academic gatekeepers

  • Why Switzerland remains a true safe haven in a volatile world

  • What it means to build a business where you manage your own money first

  • And how to develop an operating system for life that outlasts any economic cycle

If you're serious about freedom, wealth that lasts, and using better ideas to build a better life—this one’s for you.