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Grant Cardone
American entrepreneur known for sales training, the 10X brand and real-estate investing through Cardone Capital.
Photo: Grant Cardone / official website
Sales training and entrepreneurship
Grant Cardone built his public business identity around sales. His training business serves individuals and companies through courses, speaking engagements and educational programmes focused on prospecting, follow-up and closing.
Cardone University brings that material into an online learning platform. It is a central part of the business behind his videos, books and frequent appearances in entrepreneurial media.
The 10X brand
The 10X concept connects Cardone's books, events and business messaging. The brand emphasises ambitious goals and sustained action, and extends beyond a single course or company.
His public profile combines motivational content with practical sales education. Conferences and social media provide a distribution channel for the wider training and events business.
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Cardone Capital
Cardone is also the founder and chief executive of Cardone Capital, a real-estate investment business focused on multifamily properties. This is a separate part of his entrepreneurial career from sales training.
His business background therefore spans education, media and property investing. The companies behind those activities are more specific than the broader personal brand associated with the 10X name.
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From a book to a conference brand
Cardone's official biography dates The 10X Rule to 2011 and the first 10X Growth Conference to 2017. A publishing idea became the name for a live gathering, allowing the same message to reach readers and event participants in different settings.
The sequence explains how 10X developed into a recurring identity across his work. A book can introduce a concept to one reader at a time, while a conference brings speakers and an audience together. Cardone's business combined those formats with the training products already associated with his name.
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Training inside a sales organisation
Cardone University presents sales education as material that businesses can use with their teams, as well as something an individual can study. That setting connects the learning product to recurring tasks such as contacting prospects, following up and conducting a sales conversation.
This adds an organisational customer to Cardone's public profile. A company purchasing training is seeking material its staff can use in their working environment, while an individual may arrive through his books or videos. The platform brings those audiences into a more structured product than a public appearance.
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A separate organisation for property
Cardone Capital's multifamily focus concerns buildings in which many households rent homes. That makes the real-estate chapter different from a sales course or conference: the underlying activity involves acquiring and managing properties through an investment business.
Cardone's name links these activities, while the organisation behind each has different responsibilities. Training supplies educational material; property work concerns assets, operations and relationships with investors. Describing the separate company gives the real-estate part of his career a concrete setting without treating the wider 10X brand as one undifferentiated business.
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Sources & further reading
The linked source material was checked on October 13, 2026. Roles and business relationships may change. Source numbers refer to the sections above.
- Grant CardoneAbout Grant Cardone
- Cardone UniversityCardone University — sales training
- Cardone CapitalCardone Capital — real-estate investment business
