The fixer upper website may be the modern version of the first investment property

Many investors understand the idea of buying an underperforming property, renovating it, improving the yield, and selling or holding it. Matt uses that familiar mental model to explain how the same approach can work online with content sites, digital businesses, local lead-generation assets, and website portfolios. The difference is that digital assets can often be improved through skills, systems, AI, and commercial judgment rather than large deposits and bank approvals. For property and investing podcasts, this is a clean contrarian angle that still feels grounded in asset-building logic.

About Matt Raad

Matt Raad, podcast guest

Digital Investor and Educator on Building Online Income for Life on Your Terms

30 Years Entrepreneur & business investorSince 2008 Website investing pioneer100–800 Live & online event audienceseBusiness Institute CEO & Co-Founder

Matt Raad is a 30-year entrepreneur, digital investor, and CEO & Co-Founder of eBusiness Institute, Australia’s leading digital skills training organisation. After starting his career as a zoologist studying kangaroos in the Australian outback, Matt rejected the conventional path and built wealth with his wife Liz by buying, growing, and selling businesses instead of relying on property, a corporate career, or the traditional wealth playbook.

Eighteen years ago, Matt and Liz took that same business-buying approach online and became pioneers in buying, renovating, and selling websites as digital real estate. Today, Matt is one of the leading voices helping millennials, burnt-out professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs build AI-leveraged digital businesses they own, control, and can one day sell as 6–7 figure assets.

Matt’s message is especially timely for a generation that has been sold a path that no longer works: expensive degrees, insecure careers, unaffordable property, and income that disappears the moment they stop working. Through eBusiness Institute and the Digital Investors Podcast, he teaches people how to earn while they learn, use practical digital and AI skills, create cashflow from home, and build real future security through ownership.

A regular guest on major business and wealth podcasts including Rich Dad Radio, Entrepreneurs on Fire, and RASK, Matt brings a rare mix of contrarian thinking, practical strategy, and lived experience.

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