#373: Matthew Dellavedova on Investing as a Professional Athlete

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Matthew Dellavedova is a professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Dellavedova won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 and has become a fairly active investor across various asset classes, including real estate and venture capital. In this conversation, we discuss Delly's basketball career, playing with Lebron James and JR Smith, how he got interested in investing, why he likes real estate and venture capital, which deals he has done, and what his current thoughts are on Bitcoin. This was a crossover episode with Matthew's new podcast, The Delly Podcast (episode 8). ============================ Athletic Brewing is re-imagining beer for the modern adult. We love beer. But we also love being healthy, active and at our best. No matter your motivation, if you want to keep a clear head and drink healthier, we are here for you. Athletic makes non-alcoholic beer that you don't have to compromise to enjoy. The beers are fully flavored, clean ingredients, and a fraction of the calories of full strength beer - they fit in any occasion. Check out www.athleticbrewing.com for more details and free shipping nationwide. ============================ Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:11.0	Matthew Delavadova is a professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA.
0:17.3	Delavadova won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 and has become a fairly
0:22.8	active investor across various asset classes, including real estate and venture capital.
0:28.6	In this conversation, we discussed Delhi's basketball career, playing with LeBron James and J.R. Smith,
0:34.6	how he got interested in investing, why he likes real estate and venture
0:38.3	capital, which deals he has done, and what his current thoughts are on Bitcoin. I really
0:44.2	enjoyed this conversation with Delhi, and I hope you do as well. Before we get into this episode,
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