Metta World Peace, NBA Champion on Taking Advantage of Every Opportunity

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Metta World Peace and I discussed how he applies on-court lessons to his business pursuits, the best way to land a celebrity investor, and the mindset it takes to be a top defender in the NBA on this week’s episode of Office Hours. — Office Hours features billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers to talk about success, failure, and everything in between. Other guests from Season 2 include: Daymond John from Shark Tank, entrepreneur and best-selling author Ed Mylett, US Olympic beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant Dr Joe Dispenza, "The Iceman" Wim Hof, and Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author of The 10X Rule. Stream Season 2 of Office Hours now on Apple TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to office hours our next guest is met a world peace former
0:06.0	professional basketball player and entrepreneur. Welcome back to office hours
0:12.0	and thus we have another champion but not just the champion on the court. This
0:16.8	man is a champion of my heart because he is an extraordinary person not just
0:22.4	an entrepreneur but a philanthropist. His purpose is to elevate others and he
0:27.4	understands how important to elevate others to elevate his own community by
0:31.6	making a lot of money, helping a lot of people and having a lot of fun. I
0:35.7	used to joke around met a world peace and Baron Davis are in every deal that I'm
0:40.4	in and they're in deals that I'm not in so I think they're in every deal. Every
0:45.0	good deal that is but welcome to office hours met a thank you man thanks for
0:49.1	having me it's an honor you got a man I appreciate you and you are a very
0:53.4	savvy investor and in that context you are charismatic and loving and it seems
0:59.8	as if you're a trusting person but you must have some great skills in vetting
1:04.9	deals you know all great investors they have this great familiarity but they
1:10.2	also are great no people in other words they're seeking out how and why this
1:15.4	would work if it's aligned with the timing and risk tolerance what are some of
1:19.2	the tricks you've learned throughout the years as an investor in a player of
1:23.9	vetting people or vetting deals in order to figure out what the best ones are.
1:28.5	So you don't lose all your money and you're able still to help so many people.
1:32.0	So when I first started I wasn't really good at vetting you know and I was 19
1:36.5	I really loved math my first major architecture and I was interested in math
1:39.8	mathematics but I was really focused on basketball so when I first started I was
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