Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show, three, two, one, boom!

Alright, Thrive Nation, welcome back to the Thrive Time Show on your podcast download.

My name is Clay Clark, I'm the former U.S. SBA entrepreneur of the year.

And during today's podcast, I had a unique opportunity to interview my friend and partner

David Robinson, the former NBA basketball player and two time Olympic gold medal winner

and two time world championship winner, had a chance to interview him and ask him what

it's like to start a business.

And so without any further ado, start up 101 with David Robinson.

David, after you retired from 14 years in the NBA, you made the transition from athlete

to entrepreneur, which a lot of athletes don't do very well.

Unfortunately.

Unfortunately.

You started the Carver Academy and now you've started a successful capital equity fund

there and it seems as though you've transitioned pretty smoothly, or at least on the outside,

it looks like you've transitioned pretty smoothly from the athletics into entrepreneur into

more of the entrepreneurial endeavors, what made you believe that you would have the

skills needed to become a successful entrepreneur?

Well, I think I've always been able to translate things from one area to the other.

So I translate my faith into my life, I translate my basketball into my business.

I think there's always correlation.

When you learn lessons, a lot of those lessons cross lines and to be competitive at the highest

level, you need to be resilient, you need to be creative.

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