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Also written Trevor L. Taylor

Trevor L Taylor

Trevor L Taylor is a private investor in Miami, Florida and the founder of Fortius Capital.

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A short list of facts, and the subjects around them

Trevor L Taylor invests privately from Miami through Fortius Capital, the vehicle he founded to develop property, hold strategic positions and take a few private company stakes. He came to investing from competitive sport as a former Division I athlete, and he hosts the podcast Hard Truths for a Soft World. His base is a city that finance firms and wealthy newcomers have adopted in large numbers, as Business Insider has reported.

This encyclopedia keeps the facts about him short and builds outward: more than seventy entries on private capital, Miami property and business, sport, podcasting and education, each with its sources named in the text. Former college athletes reach senior roles more often than their classmates, Harvard Business School research found, which is one thread the entries follow.

Trevor L Taylor seated on a pale sofa in a blue dress shirt, one arm resting along the back
The company

Fortius Capital

The private vehicle Trevor L Taylor founded to develop property, hold strategic positions and take a few private company stakes, always in private transactions.

About Fortius Capital
The education

Athlete and scholarship supporter

A former Division I student athlete who supports education through scholarship programs that ask for no essay, aimed at the gap between athletic and academic achievement.

About his education work

Featured entries

Six starting points, each with its sources, original figures and a photograph.

  • Two perforated padel rackets and a pair of yellow balls resting on pale boards, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on padel in Miami

    Padel in Miami

    Spanglish at the net, glass walls in old warehouses and the first Premier Padel stop in America.

  • Panorama of Brickell residential and office towers with Biscayne Bay at right, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on Brickell

    Brickell

    From a road of bayfront mansions to Miami's thickest cluster of offices, condos and rentals.

  • Brickell office and condominium towers seen across Biscayne Bay from Brickell Key, illustrating the Trevor L Taylor entry on family offices in Miami

    Family Offices in Miami

    Billionaire relocations, Brickell towers and multi family office arrivals reshape a finance city.

  • A full tennis stadium on Key Biscayne with the Miami skyline rising beyond the upper stands, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on the Miami Open

    Miami Open

    From the Lipton on Key Biscayne to a tennis campus inside an NFL stadium in Miami Gardens.

  • A sixth generation iPod Classic music player on a white background, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on the history of podcasting

    History of Podcasting

    From a feed attachment and an iPod pun to a medium more than half of Americans use monthly.

  • A wooden pyramid metronome with its cover off standing beside an acoustic guitar on a wood floor, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on deliberate practice

    Deliberate Practice

    Structured, feedback driven practice matters, though less than the famous hour count suggests.

Browse by subject

Ten subject indexes, from position sizing to padel.

  • An open antique account ledger with handwritten columns, for the Trevor L Taylor subject index on private investing
    Subject

    Private investing

    Sizing, memos, cash reserves, private equity and systematic methods.

  • Aerial night view of downtown Miami and Brickell towers along Biscayne Bay, the cluster image for Trevor L Taylor on Miami real estate
    Subject

    Miami real estate

    Carrying cost, condo reserves, zoning, Brickell and preconstruction sales.

  • Panoramic Miami skyline at sunrise above the port roadways, from the Trevor L Taylor guide to Miami as a business and finance city
    Subject

    Miami business

    Finance firms arriving, the port, the airport, taxes and the tech sector.

  • Courtyard facade of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, seat of a banking family, on the Trevor L Taylor family offices subject page
    Subject

    Family offices

    How families organize private capital, from structures to succession.

  • Rows of colored bumper plates stacked in racks on a rubber gym floor, the cover photo for Trevor L Taylor on athlete discipline and performance
    Subject

    Athlete discipline

    Practice, periodization, CrossFit, Taekwondo, weightlifting and logs.

  • Rows of empty green seats around the main stadium at the Crandon Park tennis grounds on Key Biscayne, from the Trevor L Taylor tennis subject index
    Subject

    Tennis and padel

    College tennis, the Miami Open, Crandon Park, scoring and padel.

  • The William M Powell Bridge on the Rickenbacker Causeway under heavy clouds in black and white, from the Trevor L Taylor guide to endurance sport and cycling
    Subject

    Cycling and endurance

    Time trials, pacelines, power meters, aerodynamics and the causeway.

  • Two wooden antique radio sets on a glass museum shelf, one with a sunburst speaker grille, for the Trevor L Taylor subject page on podcasting and media
    Subject

    Podcasting

    How podcasts began, how feeds work and why long conversations last.

  • Rows of empty seats in a tiered university lecture hall, from the Trevor L Taylor cluster on education access and scholarships
    Subject

    Education access

    Pell Grants, first generation students, Bright Futures and small awards.

  • A wooden Staunton chess set arranged on its board before the first move, the hero for the Trevor L Taylor subject index on leadership and decisions
    Subject

    Decision making

    Premortems, checklists, loss aversion, expected value and opportunity cost.

His work

Hard Truths for a Soft World

His podcast turns a systematic eye on technology, comfort, attention and connection. Each episode has its own reference entry here, written for this encyclopedia and linked to the original.

All works