Exploring the Marketplace with Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson Welcomes CEO, Nick Valenta (S1: Ep 32)
Exploring the Marketplace
Shawn Bolz
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz & Bob Hasson interview CEO, Nick Valenta. Nick became the youngest registered MLB agent and started his investment firm working with predominantly athletes, he helped them learn about legacy building and financially sound investments, mainly focusing on alternative assets in the hedge fund and private equity space. He has evolved his business into two main segments, a creative agency and an alternative asset firm. Tune in as Shawn, Bob & Nick discuss how he started out his business and the story of how God led him to what He is currently doing. Hear the epic story of how God showed up in Las Vegas at a blackjack table; Nick shares vulnerably about the struggles he currently has being a young entrepreneur in the marketplace and the amazing learning journey he is on with God that helps him continually grow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Exploring the Marketplace Podcast. My co-host is Bob Hassan and we are creating |
| 0:10.9 | a conversation with Christian Marketplace leaders who have careers that have been impacted |
| 0:14.8 | by their faith. We are also answering your questions about entrepreneurship, business |
| 0:19.4 | leadership, careers, and how the Kingdom of God changes your impact in the marketplace. |
| 0:24.6 | Come join the conversation now. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome to Exploring the Marketplace where we get to have marketplace conversations with |
| 0:33.2 | people from every kind of career background and highlight their story to you as well as |
| 0:37.8 | answer your questions of state tuned all the way to the end of this podcast where we're |
| 0:42.4 | going to be answering questions for you or listeners. Well, Bob Hassan, how are you doing |
| 0:46.0 | today? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm good, Sean Bowles. How are you? |
| 0:48.7 | I'm so good. But we have your friend, Nick Valenta, on today. I'm going to just |
| 0:52.7 | want to read this Bible a little bit to our listener. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.3 | Amazing. He started his career in private equity in Manhattan working for consumer goods |
| 0:59.3 | in real estate private equity firm. He then started his own tech consulting. He's only |
| 1:03.0 | in his 20s still. So he started his own tech consulting firm and worked with Goldman's |
| 1:07.0 | Private Wealth Management Group after that, which I think that would be so young. You |
| 1:11.0 | could do that. |
| 1:12.0 | A lot of Goldman, he realized he had all the components to start his own investment firm, |
| 1:15.7 | which was his goal since he was 12 years old. |
| 1:18.7 | He became the youngest registered MBA agent and started his investment firm working with |
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