Kevin Durant reveals to Speedy that some of his best friends are actually regular 9-5 workers he randomly met from playing video games back in the day 🤣❤️🎮
“They hung out with me in my house. They’ve been friends with me for damn near 10 years now. I met this dude on the game… I’m talking to this dude every day for months, I’m like, ‘I gotta chill with y’all.’ And they solid dudes, just became friends… I’ll call him right now, he’ll pick up the phone.”
Kevin Durant's biggest wins as a Venture Capitalist:
Hugging Face ($250k check to $60mm)
Whoop ($125mm valuation to $10.1B valuation)
Coinbase (invested at $1.6B valuation in 2017)
Robinhood (invested at $1.2B valuation in 2017)
Underdog Fantasy (invested in $10mm funding round, sold for $1.1B)
Rubrik ($1.3B valuation in 2017, now valued at $20B)
Mercury (Participated in 2019 Series A at $100mm. Now valued at $5.2B.)
Postmates (invested $1mm, received $15mm after an Uber buyout)
Overtime (invested at $31mm valuation)
Kevin Durant believes that athletes who are considered the face of their franchises, such as Steph Curry with the Warriors & Dirk Nowitzki with the Mavericks, should be given partial equity of the team for all the revenue that they’ve generated over the years 🔥💰
Kevin Durant opens up to Speedy about the challenges of being rich, explaining that he had to learn boundaries and how to say ‘No’ to certain people close to him because they were always asking him for money 😮💸👀
“People want money, to be honest… People look at you as a crutch sometimes. More and more hands that’s trying to get a piece of what you’re doing… We wanna make sure everybody doing well, but sometimes it can be a lot too. Once you figure out that balance, I think it’s not too bad.”