Tristan Schukraft started his first business when he was 21, selling Razor scooters out of his pickup truck to help finance his idea for an e-ticketing platform for the airline industry. Now, he boasts a portfolio of 68 businesses, which he says have led him to become a “billionaire.”
Schukraft has become widely known as the “CEO of Everything Gay.” He is the CEO of MISTR, a major LGBTQ telehealth platform expanding access to PrEP and STI testing, and he owns Tryst Hospitality, a family of luxury gay hotels with destinations in iconic LGBTQ destinations like San Juan and Puerto Vallarta. And last year, after Schukraft spent $17 million to buy much of the Fire Island Pines’ commercial district, The Wall Street Journal magazine ran a story titled “The Man Who Bought Fire Island.”
In this episode of “UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton,” we sit down with Schukraft to talk about the importance of preserving queer institutions and ending the HIV epidemic. We also discuss the controversies and difficulties in managing so many LGBTQ-focused businesses as well as five—yes, five—boyfriends.
Disclaimer: MISTR, Schukraft’s telehealth platform that offers free online access to PrEP, DoxyPEP, STI testing, Hepatitis C testing and treatment and long-term HIV care across the U.S., supports some of Uncloseted Media’s healthcare coverage. MISTR did not have any editorial input into the content of this story.
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Host: Spencer Macnaughton
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