The former Argentine basketball player Emanuel Ginóbili is proud to support ‘startups’ (emerging companies) in his new role as an investor and in love with the entrepreneurial world, as he explained during a talk at the third edition of the IDB Lab Forum, which takes place in Buenos Aires.
“I met many founders with brilliant ideas and a contagious passion, people that gave me pleasure to be helping,” said ‘Manu’ about the entrepreneurial world, of which he highlighted the “added value” it brings to the community and said he was “in love.”
“Today, it catches me, I like it”he added, during a dialogue with Mariano Mayer, Managing Partner & Founder of Newtopia VC, in which he revealed that his goal is simply to try to help. “I take pride, in a way, in supporting,” he said.
Ginobili was the pillar of the ‘Golden Generation’ of Argentine basketballwho won Olympic gold in Athens 2004.
Furthermore, it is winner of four NBA rings with the San Antonio Spurs and, as of 2022, a member of the Hall of Fame.
“Science and technology was something that I lovedbut he was very immersed in the world of basketball,” said Ginobili, who highlighted that his first contact with the world of technology was when he identified the “technological revolution initially in the world of sports” and how “statistics were changing behaviors.”
Furthermore, he established a parallel between the entrepreneur and the athlete when they start their careers and pointed out that There is a “synergy” between both professions because athletes learn from the “creative” side of businessmen and they learn from the care of their bodies.
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