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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Accepting Your Not an Expert at Everything with Maria Sharapova

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Maria Sharapova, one of the highest earning athletes in history, shares the business knowledge that she has accrued through her career, and how she positioned herself to learn from “heavy-hitters” outside of tennis, including NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Maria discusses what she’s learned building and scaling her company, Sugarpova, as well as the role of trust for entrepreneurial success.

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0:00.0

This is my company. I'm doing the due diligence for you. This is what we're lacking,

0:03.9

and this is why I need your help. So that's incredible information. If you can have the confidence

0:09.6

to go into an investor meeting and say, these are my flaws, and this is why you should maybe not

0:15.0

consider using me. Their whole perspective can change. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:20.7

For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs

0:26.0

to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:29.9

I have a special guest, and when I think of Maria Sherpova, I think of the spirit of excellence.

0:35.9

And I'm blessed, you know, I ran one of the most notable sports agencies, and I'm blessed to

0:41.5

market the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And my favorite part is that I get to be around exceptional

0:46.4

people. And although being a sportsman and playing sports in college growing up, I'm more

0:52.9

interested in how the character carries over, especially into business, because what most people

0:59.7

don't know, I would say, doctors, my older brother is a doctor. They're horrible business people,

1:03.9

because they're well-trained. Nobody's more well-trained than a tennis player.

1:08.0

We're an athlete in general, but tennis is a disadvantage.

1:12.1

Well, the kids are individual beasts, right? Because it's just you, like, you form a team,

1:17.0

and all parallels to business. Like, you form a team to get you the best possible

1:22.9

information and knowledge and the wealth of knowledge. Like, yes, you are the commander and the

1:27.5

chief of everything that you produce, but it is the people that you also have to rely on in order

1:32.3

to get you to the top. And that's something that's like just value right there, as you can't know

1:37.6

it all. And you have to be, you have to be a sponge in learning and being curious. And you get

1:43.8

that from being an athlete, that's for sure. Yeah, and my business partner is Warren Moon,

1:47.9

the Hall of Fame quarterback. And what I, when I chose the business partner to have,

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