Investment memo: "Athletic Ventures", how elite professional athletes unlock value as investors

Explore your curiosity w Christie Jenkins + Josh Thomas about bout professional athlete transitions into the business world and how Christie, Josh and nearly a 100 of Australia’s best and brightest athletes across all sporting codes have created an investing syndicate in Athletic Ventures.

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TIMESTAMPS

02:09 - Josh’s career in the AFL

03:13 - Christie’s career across 3 sports

04:07 - Planning life after sport

07:10 - Routines, habits and sprints

11:45 - Would you do anything differently if you go back 5 years?

14:31 - First interaction with startups and VC

17:31 - Knowledge building into venture capital work

20:52 - Coach, work ethic and people better than you

22:24 - Early days of building Athletic Ventures

24:47 - Biggest surprise

25:48 - How does Athletic Ventures best serve founders

28:26 - Long term excitement for Athletic Ventures

29:18 - How should founders view athletic on their cap table

31:39 - Most recent publicly announced deal and why

34:12 - Industries athletic ventures can best help in

36:28 - Key focus on Series A and why