What happens when a wealth manager applies institutional discipline and global insight to hospitality investing?&nbsp;&nbsp;In this episode of Sharkpreneur, Seth Greene interviews William Huston, Founder and General Partner at Bay Street Hospitality, who discusses his journey from a call center business to creating global hospitality-focused funds designed to deliver high yields through quant-driven strategies. William shares deep insights into hospitality investment, covering topics from student housing in Hong Kong to tourism growth in India, and how his firm’s data-driven approach maximizes returns for institutional investors. He explains how combining local market intelligence, government partnerships, and strategic acquisitions has enabled Bay Street to scale rapidly while maintaining high-quality service for asset owners, operators, and developers worldwide.&nbsp;Key Takeaways:→&nbsp;Long-term success depends on backing proven operators and developers—not just attractive properties.&nbsp;→&nbsp;Student housing shortages in Hong Kong, India’s tourism boom, and Australia’s Olympic-driven infrastructure investments all represent distinct, time-sensitive market drivers.&nbsp;→&nbsp;The same disciplined frameworks used in wealth management, including risk assessment, alignment, and scalability, can be successfully applied to hospitality.&nbsp;→&nbsp;Hospitality is an experience-driven business, shaped by human connection, culture, and memory.&nbsp;→&nbsp;Growth should align with life priorities.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2018, William Huston founded Bay Street Hospitality, where he currently serves as General Partner. Bay Street started as a call center based in El Salvador, structured as an LLC, serving his own investment fund rather than other companies' clients.&nbsp;The firm operates globally across public and private markets and applies a proprietary quantamental investment framework that integrates quantitative scoring models with fundamental underwriting discipline and targets hospitality operators, developers, and asset owners, offering equity, credit, and hybrid capital solutions.&nbsp;In May 2025, Huston launched a $430 million hospitality investment fund aimed at combining financial returns with positive social impact, targeting underinvested hotel markets globally, with a particular emphasis on India’s fast-growing tourism sector.&nbsp;Connect With William:Website: <a href="https://www.baystreethospitality.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.baystreethospitality.com/</a>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/huios/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/huios/</a> &nbsp;

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