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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Future of Golf & Growing The Game | A Conversation with Ken Kamada

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a conversation with Ken Kamada, CEO of aboutGOLF Simulators. I speak about my past experience owning a golf course and representing golfers. Ken talks about how moving to Seattle and how a humble paper route began his fiery entrepreneurial spirit. Together, we delve deep into the soulful essence of golf and explore how simulators are revolutionizing connections in the sport worldwide. We both speak about the importance of balancing entrepreneurial life and family life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This day Belcher with entrepreneurs the playbook at the greatest stadium ever

0:11.2

created talk about a simulator up there. That's a billion dollars here

0:15.6

at SoFi in Inglewood and I have the king of simulators. He knows everything

0:20.5

about golf because he's the CEO about golf and he's Ken Camato.

0:25.2

Welcome to the playbook.

0:26.4

Thank you. Appreciate for having me here.

0:28.3

Yeah, well, you know, I owned a golf course and you know I built and played golf for one reason to do business.

0:38.2

I represented some amazing golfers from Lee Elder to Furek, the variety of people at Lee Steinberg that we were representing.

0:47.4

Golf to me is the greatest game as far as skill goes and the reason is it's for me my expertise is in mindset

0:57.4

and regardless whether you're on a golf course or standing on a simulator or even in my opinion playing putt putt

1:06.1

golf there's no other game that has the same chess like component of mindset and it also represents one other thing besides

1:17.1

mindset that I want to get into and its consistency. At its core, golf is something that you can get better at by practicing.

1:27.0

And I believe that in life that transcends everything and people say, well, how do you deal with guilt or anxiety?

1:34.4

I practice dealing with guilt or anxiety.

1:37.2

At what age in your career as you've worked for Morgan Stanley and all these things,

1:42.3

did you realize these two components of golf, because obviously

1:46.0

golf must be a huge passion for you, how important mindset is and consistency?

1:51.6

Wow, I think it's even before that.

1:57.0

It goes back to when I was probably nine, ten years old.

2:02.0

I moved to the United States when I was 10. From Japan.

2:04.3

Yeah, from Japan, first generation immigrant. And, you know, back then there were really

2:09.2

no child labor laws and my dad literally threw me into a paper route in the Seattle area and you

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