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Derek Hurtado is a 26-year-old serial entrepreneur from Scottsdale, Arizona. Derek grew up humbly and always wanted more out of his life. After high school, Derek went on to attend Arizona State University. He graduated with a 4-year degree and started a content creation business while attending college. He scaled his content creation business, but quickly realized scalability wasn’t there. Therefore, he moved on to something new.
With the relentless drive to make a business and his background in content creation, he decided to start a Social Media Agency. He started Pivotal Point, after months of research and deep work, he saw big success. Pivotal Point worked with hundreds of influencers and clients, to help them build their online presence. Derek quickly realized that he was his biggest testimonial, and started building a massive personal brand. Derek has accumulated over 50,000 engaged followers across his two accounts.
After quickly building Pivotal Point, he wanted to mix social media with another one of his passions, real estate. Derek started to research the Airbnb business model and took a leap in. He started his vacation rental company, called SIR Global. His vacation rental company scaled to 6 figures, in only 6 short months. They now own properties all over the United States and Canada and have had over 1000 satisfied clients.
Above all, Derek has a burning desire to live life by design and has achieved that feat. Derek has proven time and time again with all the massive success he has achieved. That with enough hard work, determination, focus, and put your mind to it, anyone can build any life they want.