Billionaire investor Chris Sacca told an amazing story about how obsessed Kobe Bryant is with being a successful investor in the start-up world
In case there were ever a doubt about how Kobe Bryant plans to approach his retirement, a recent anecdote from billionaire investor and "Shark Tank" personality Chris Sacca illustrates pretty definitively that it will be with the same obsessive competitiveness that defined his basketball career.
Appearing on Bill Simmons' podcast to discuss a slew of topics, Sacca shared a terrific story about his interactions with Bryant.
Sacca said that a few years back, he reluctantly took a meeting with Bryant because basketball star wanted to discuss some business ventures and the start-up world. Sacca told Simmons that he was skeptical about Bryant not only because he wasn't a basketball fan, but because he had witnessed many professional athletes treat business like tourism, barely dipping their toes into the world and learning how it works.
Not surprisingly, Kobe Bryant was slightly different.