DeMaurice Smith: NFLPA Executive Director and Players' Inc. President

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

“Make sure you have the right teammates and trust them to do their job.” In 2009, DeMaurice Smith was unanimously elected as the NFL Players’ Associations Executive Director. Since then, he’s structured a new league CBA, created a $160M annual marketing division, co-founded ACE Media, and engineered the first athlete-driven accelerator, One Team Collective. Smith is empowering the modern day athlete and entrepreneur through education, new platforms, and better working conditions. Throughout our conversation, Smith dives deep into the transactional trenches of negotiations with Roger Goodell, but it’s his advice on mentorship and transformational teaching that’s most impressive. Welcome to Suiting Up, where professional lacrosse player, operator and investor, Paul Rabil, talks to influencers within the world of sports to examine the modern duality of a professional athlete.

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0:00.0	A former trial lawyer and litigating partner in Washington, D.C. now turned NFLPA Executive
0:08.7	Director. He's also the head for their for-profit marketing arm Players Inc. architect of Ace Media and
0:14.8	creator of the NFL's first athlete-driven accelerator, One Team Collective.
0:19.4	D. Marie Smith is not only collectively bargaining rights against the league on behalf of the players,
0:25.2	but he's also empowering them to harness their interests and passion projects,
0:29.2	by educating and accelerating them through the process of concept to company in leading this
0:34.4	transformative narrative that we often talk about on the show of the modern day
0:38.9	athlete entrepreneur.
0:47.0	Let me ask you something.
0:48.0	Are you hiring?
0:50.0	And if so, do you know where to post your job to find the best candidates?
0:53.0	On building a great business, Rable Company's advisor also my older brother Mike says
0:58.5	we believe people build businesses, not an Excel sheet, not a business plan. We believe the people we hire will end up making
1:05.5	our company successful.
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1:22.3	finding you, it finds them.
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1:31.0	That's fast.
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