Andre Iguodala (Miami Heat) and Rudy Cline-Thomas (Mastry) - Bridging the Gap Between Sports and Tech
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.5 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rudy Cline-Thomas is the managing director of Mastry, Inc., which brings together athletes and technology companies to create platform-building opportunities. A three-time NBA Champion, Andre Iguodala has played for the Miami Heat, the Golden State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets, and the Philadelphia 76ers. Off the court, Iguodala has invested in more than 50 companies through his firm F9 Strategies, including Zoom, Robinhood, Datadog, and Allbirds. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Toby Corey, Iguodala and Cline-Thomas discuss the evolving career paths for athletes, the unique value athletes bring as tech investors, and their shared passion for closing America’s racial wealth gap.
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| 0:00.0 | Who you are defines how you build. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series. |
| 0:10.7 | Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, we're delighted to welcome Rudy Klein Thomas and Andre Iguodala to ETL. |
| 0:20.5 | What a treat. Rudy Klein Thomas is the founder |
| 0:23.3 | and managing partner of Mastery, Inc., which brings together world-class athletes, technology companies |
| 0:28.8 | to create top-tier platform building opportunities. Now, Andre Aguadala currently plays for the |
| 0:34.5 | NBA's Miami Heat. For all you big area folks out there, as you know, he's won three NBA championships |
| 0:41.2 | of the Golden State Warriors. |
| 0:42.9 | And in 2015, he received the NBA Finals' Most Valuable Player Award. |
| 0:49.0 | So why are these two sharing the bill? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, off the court, Andre has also been at the forefront of venture capital and technology, |
| 0:58.7 | and Rudy's been the catalyst for a lot of that. |
| 1:01.8 | They formed a really unique working relationship that has involved backing market-leading |
| 1:06.3 | companies like PagerDuty, Zoom, Cloud Fair, to name just a couple of companies that have also been highlighted at this ETL series. |
| 1:15.6 | And they both serve on the board of Juma Technologies, Africa's largest e-commerce retailer. |
| 1:21.6 | Now, Rudy also founded the annual Players Technology Summit with Bloomberg as a presenting partner, bringing together leaders |
| 1:29.5 | in the technology venture capital, sports communities to discuss tech investing, trends, |
| 1:35.3 | partnerships, and the future of sports and tech initiatives. And Andre has been deeply involved |
| 1:41.1 | in that effort as well. So this is going to be a very, very cool story of how two cool dudes find alignment and create |
| 1:48.9 | massive change together. |
| 1:51.4 | Welcome, Rudy and Andre. |
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