Business Daily meets: Ginny Gilder

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ginny Gilder won silver as a US Olympic rower in 1984. Today, she's a multimillionaire owner of a women's professional basketball team.

How did success in the water inspire Ginny's breakthrough to the board room?

We look at a life given to sport and business - and what drives her.

(Image: Ginny Gilder. Credit: Getty Images)

Presenter: Ed Butler Producer: Amber Mehmood

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily Meets here on the BBC World Service. This is where we
0:05.7	bring you in-depth interviews with people in business from across the globe. And today, we're meeting
0:10.9	Ginny Gilda. She's a former two-time US Olympian in the sport of rowing. She's now the multi-millionaire
0:17.8	co-owner of Seattle Storm, a professional women's basketball team.
0:22.8	Being a medalist for me has fallen away. And what's most important is all the experiences I had
0:29.3	that helped me become my best self. We hear what it took for Ginny to hone her skills in her sport.
0:37.1	What they say about rowers is rowers have a low threshold for fun.
0:40.6	That certainly happened to me.
0:42.2	Pain and pushing myself became something I really looked forward to.
0:46.5	And now, driven by her own experiences,
0:49.1	how she's trying to make a difference for women in another sport
0:52.3	as the co-owner of a basketball team, Seattle Storm.
0:55.8	I really wanted to be an owner of the team because I thought if I could help the WNBA
1:00.8	and the storm create space for women to do what they loved professionally.
1:06.1	Well, that would be a step forward for women and girls.
1:09.2	This is Business Daily Meets with Ginny Gilda on the BBC World Service.
1:21.2	Ginny was born and raised in New York City.
1:24.7	Her dad was a native New Yorker, her mum, an immigrant from Sweden. Growing up in
1:29.6	the 1960s and 70s, sport wasn't a big part of her life. I was in boarding school in 1974 and really
1:39.4	kind of I would characterize myself as a miserable teenager and hated boarding school and every chance I got to leave campus I would characterize myself as a miserable teenager and hated boarding school.
1:45.5	And every chance I got to leave campus, I would.
1:48.2	And a friend of mine invited me to go to Boston.
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