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Welcome back to the Thrive Time Show on your podcast download.

My name is Clay Clark, I'm the former US-SBA entrepreneur of the year.

And during today's podcast, I had a unique opportunity to interview my friend and partner David Robinson, the former NBA basketball player in two-time Olympic gold medal winner and two-time World Championship winner.

I had a chance to interview him and ask him what it's like to start a business.

And so without any further ado, startup 101 with David Robinson.

David, after you retired from 14 years in the NBA,

you made the transition from athlete to entrepreneur,

which a lot of athletes don't do very well

unfortunately you started the Carver Academy and now you've started a successful

capital equity fund there and it seems as though you

transition pretty smoothly or at least on the outside it looks like you've

transitioned pretty smoothly from the from the athletics into entrepreneur, into the more of the entrepreneurial endeavors.

What made you believe that you would have the skills needed to become a successful entrepreneur?

Well, I think I've always been able to translate things from one area to the other.

So I translate my faith into my life, I translate my basketball into my business.

You know, there's, I think there's always correlation.

When you learn lessons, a lot of those lessons cross lines.

And to be competitive at the highest level you need to be resilient, you need to be

creative, you need to be disciplined, you need to be focused.

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