Curiosity as the Key to Growth

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Metta World Peace, an NBA Champion who has reinvented himself as a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist. We talk about his decision to walk away from easy opportunities like reality TV and instead immerse himself in coding, digital marketing, and the fundamentals of building businesses. Metta shares how curiosity drove him from the court to classrooms, coffee shops, and coding sessions, where persistence and humility became his playbook. He opens up about mental health, the importance of language in shaping how we approach it, and why reinvention requires sacrifice, focus, and a willingness to start over.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Office Hours. I'm David Meltzer, and we're here at the Serious XM Studios at the
0:04.1	win in Las Vegas. And man, we are loaded with Pro Bowler's All-Stars, men of gold, standards so high that it's disappointing to have Clint Sparts next to me. Good to see you, brother. Peacemakers. We have peacemakers here. Definitely a peacemaker. And Joseph Schallaby, thanks for joining us.
0:21.1	Absolutely.
0:21.6	Love to be here.
0:22.2	I love Meta.
0:23.0	Oh, I do, too.
0:23.5	Love the Lakers. Yeah, definitely a peacemaker. And Joseph Chalaby, thanks for joining us as well.
0:21.3	Absolutely. Love to be here. I love Meta. Oh, I do too. Love the Lakers. And our throne, Samoan, our throne, Simone at the end there, Bucky O'Neill, thanks. You. Good to be here. All right, let's get right to it because this is one of my favorite people in the world. And we share. Oh, my God. He says the same thing about me. Whatever. That's right.
0:37.5	It's one of them.
0:38.1	You are one of them.
0:39.8	You are.
0:40.8	You are.
0:40.8	He's so jealous this couldn't spark. He sold like 80 million records and he really gives this shit what I think. I doubt it. All right. Anyways, uh, Meta world peace. Uh, him and I have something in common. It's just inversely related. Not only is he super tall and I'm super small,
0:55.9	but I got into sports because of technology and venture.
1:01.3	That's what Lee Steinberg saw in the future of sports.
1:04.0	You need to know technology and the new venture capital to be successful in sports.
1:08.3	And that's why I got hired into sports.
1:11.0	And meta did the opposite.
1:12.8	He used venture in technology after he got into sports because like I said, he's super
1:18.5	tall and I'm super small.
1:20.0	Actually, he's super talented and I wasn't.
1:21.8	But more importantly, I'd love to talk about you today as a venture capitalist and you really understand technology as well.
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