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During today's podcast, I'm sitting down with my good friend

NBA Hall of Fame basketball player David Robinson,

and I'm asking him about what it's like to start a school when you are an

NBA Hall of Fame or an NBA Hall of Fame basketball player with a huge net worth, why in the world would

you want to start a non-profit school that even when it's successful has the potential of not producing for you a profit?

I mean, why would you want to build a charter school that would serve the most underprivileged students in your community

who don't even have the financial capacity to pay you back.

Why would you want to do it?

And the reason why is because David Robinson was following his heart when he decided to start

the Carver Academy. So now that he further ado, David Robinson on the importance of following your heart as an entrepreneur.

You had never started a school before and then you started a school that now is opening

you guys are opening 20 schools in the next five years.

Yeah.

What made you, I mean, did you kind of go back to the thought process of George

Washington Carver and you just said basically I don't maybe

have all the tools but I'm just gonna start right now with it with where I am and

what I have was that kind of your idea like I don't have it all figured out but I'm

just gonna start right or where did you get that sort of

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