Kobe Bryant's Second Career in Investing Was Just Getting Started
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Kobe Bryant, the basketball icon who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, leaving a legacy that spanned 20 years in professional sports and a growing second career as an investor. #KobeBryant
Bryant was among nine people killed when a helicopter slammed into a hillside in Calabasas, California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. He was 41. Also among the victims were his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, another parent and a teammate from Gianna’s travel sports team.
Bryant began investing long before he retired from the NBA. Those who worked with him said he showed the same intensity and work ethic in pitch meetings that he used to show on the court. He’d frequently cold-call CEOs and business leaders -- including former Nike Chief Executive Officer Mark Parker, former Apple Inc. executive Jony Ive, and media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington -- to learn more about their business.
Bryant’s legacy cut across multiple fields -- sports, entertainment, business -- and social media erupted with messages and lamentations. Nike posted a poignant image in saying goodbye to Bryant, whose nickname was Black Mamba.
Among his most successful investments was an early stake in the sports drink-maker BodyArmor. He reportedly put $6 million into the company in 2014, a stake that was worth an estimated $200 million after Coca-Cola took a majority stake in BodyArmor four years later.
“It’s the same mentality” as playing basketball, Bryant told Bloomberg Businessweek of his investing back in 2018. “You win one championship, you can go on vacation all summer long or be in the gym the next day working on winning the next one. That same mentality carries through to what we are doing today, to me being here now.”
In 2013 he co-founded Bryant Stibel, a venture capital firm, with Jeff Stibel. The firm has invested in more than two dozen companies, including video game publisher Epic Games, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com, Cholula hot sauce, and athlete-centered media platform the Players Tribune.
He dabbled in media as well, launching a production company called Kobe Studios.
Bryant leaves behind a wife, Vanessa, and three surviving daughters -- Natalia, Bianka and Capri, who was born last year.
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The reason they killed him
come on now , what did they do engineer the fog ?
Blame the white man for everything- black privilege. Lmao
@@SJ-nl6xl white man don't wanna see a black man be as rich and successful as them - white privilege #FACTS
S J what race was used for slavery in America the most? Native Americans or Africans? And why?
So was it an accident or did someone do something to make it crash
No. Nobody kill him. He was just a n_gga trying to flex. Getting in a helicopter in bad weather going to a little kids basketball game.
@@SJ-nl6xl I smell racism
@@midnmusic2217 But blaming the white man isn't racist. -Black privilege
This is part of the reason they killed him. In the same lawsuit he filed over the Mamba trademark he exposed Insys Pharmaceuticals and their schemes of overprescribing fentanyl products, causing the opiod crisis, as well as coating dietary pills with synthetic opiods. Sick fucks, Kobe was trying to do the right thing and was killed for it. Research Jeff Stibel and his connection to Kobe and the pharma companies.
They killed him and the day after he died the harverd dude that made bio chemical in China Wuhan spilled the corna virus was convicted for 5 years. That week everybody was stuck and struck about Kobe’s death while the harverd dude news was swept under the ruggg by the media. And the reason the corona virus was spilled is cause Hong Kong protester can be quarantined cause it’s was getting out of hand and China couldn’t handle that the power of the people was impacting people in China and was listening .As Hong Kong people wants to be a democratic country/city and China wants to take over Hong Kong ,to make sure they are a censored city. China’s people are starting to become woke from the truth. While the president wanted to dumb it down and have power on the people.
The 5g race is a serious problem too all this is all linked some how and some way. Put it all together. Would you rather want China to become the global power house or America ?
Hillary Clinton back at it again
#KB24EVER
And there it is.
No, he wasn't going to.
They made sure.