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Watch Draymond Green discuss investing, media and mental health • ZebethMedia

The final day of Disrupt kicked off in style with a conversation featuring four-time NBA All Star, Draymond Green. It was a spirited chat, covering the power forward’s push into media, including his podcast, The Draymond Green Show and deals with channels like TNT. Green also spoke at length about investing, managing mental health as a professional athlete and discussed how he and the team are working through the recent highly publicized altercation with fellow Golden State Warrior, Jordan Poole.

The Warriors’ Draymond Green talks podcasts, social media and the elephant in the room • ZebethMedia

The Warriors’ Draymond Green took the stage at ZebethMedia Disrupt today where he discussed his podcast, social media… and yes, the Jordan Poole punch. Green has spent the last several years building up his resume off the court, most notably through his popular podcast, “The Draymond Green Show.” Green touched on how his podcast has disrupted the media industry and how he continuously receives a lot of pushback on it. Like Green himself, the podcast has courted some controversy, but it also gives listeners a rare look into an active NBA player and the various athletes he invites on. “Me doing a podcast is very disruptive to the sports media industry,” Green said. “You’re listening to me speak about this game in a totally different context than you will hear anyone in the media speak about. Why? Because I actually just played that game. So my perspective is totally different. And in doing a podcast, the media is not able to create the narrative that they want to create. There was a lot of pushback. For those pundits that had a problem with me doing the podcast, I wonder what they’ll say this year because I actually won an NBA final doing it, so it couldn’t have been much of a distraction.” Green said he’s currently working toward building something incredible in the media space outside of basketball. He noted that although numerous notable individuals have founded and worked on several projects at once, such as Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey, people still questioned his ability to record a podcast after a game. Green, of course, also had to address the punching video that took the internet by storm earlier this month. The video depicts Green punching teammate Jordan Poole during practice. He revealed that he rewatched the video numerous times throughout the day when it was leaked. Draymond Green onstage at ZebethMedia Disrupt in San Francisco on October 20, 2022. Image Credits: Haje Kamps / ZebethMedia “I watched that video 15 or 16 times throughout the day,” Green said. “I kept putting myself through it because when I watched it, I couldn’t quite understand it. The video is six seconds. Just me walking up. No sound or anything, nothing leading up to it or anything. And so I’m watching the video, and I’m like: ‘man, this is bad.’” Green said he recognizes that he has to address the elephant in the room and own up to his mistake. He revealed that he had recorded a podcast episode regarding the punch, but didn’t release it because he was still reeling from the situation and didn’t want it to seem like he was only addressing the situation for personal gain. Green has since addressed the situation during his self-produced documentary called “The Countdown.” In the opening of part one, Green said: “I don’t think I cared about anything anyone said until the video was leaked.” When asked about this opening, Green said “narratives run the world” and that when you take a private situation public, it changes everything. In addition, Green touched on his struggles with social media and how he feels about constantly being subjected to everyone’s opinions online. “We live in a day and age of social media and it’s great,” Green said. “But it’s not always censored. So you’re subjected to everyone’s opinion, and I don’t know if that’s always the best thing. You’re kind of in a position on Twitter or Instagram where everyone feels like they can say whatever it is that they want to say.”

Draymond Green isn’t starting a fund, but is working with top VCs • ZebethMedia

Draymond Green, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, says he’s working with well-known investors involved in the tech space. That wasn’t a massive secret — Green has historically been quite public about his portfolio companies, like SmileDirectClub — but until this morning at ZebethMedia Disrupt, he hadn’t previously named his go-to investing partners. When asked by ZebethMedia’s Brian Heater on stage whether he was looking to start an investment fund, Green replied that he wasn’t because he’s already involved with a group of prominent VCs, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Bill Gurley, Jason Calacanis and Bill Lee. Palihapitiya was an early investor at Facebook and backed Yammer and Slack through this fund, Social+Capital Partnership. Gurley, currently at Benchmark, has led investments in a number of high-profile companies including Nextdoor and OpenTable. Calacanis is an angel investor in various tech startups including mindfulness app Calm. And Bill Lee is one of the co-founders of Craft Ventures, alongside which Green has invested in the past. “I have some of the best friends in the world, especially when you’re speaking of funds, and so I don’t personally feel the need to go create my own when I have experts like that in my life that can help guide me,” Green said. “I take pride in learning and I never want it to come off as if I know more than them … It’s not something that I see for me, trying to start my own firm, but I do enjoy and appreciate being an LP in their funds.” Green — who once told CNBC that he wanted to become a billionaire by age 40 — has been an active investor in startups for several years, beginning in 2015 with the aforementioned SmileDirectClub. He’s poured money into Blink Fitness, which aims to bring affordable options for fitness to underserved communities; the tequila brand Lobos 1707; and Snackpass, a social food ordering platform. Green’s more recent investments span self-filtering water bottle brand LARQ and LeBron James’ company, Uninterrupted, a multimedia platform for athletes and general sports content. Not all of those investments have turned out to be strong long-term performers. For example, while SmileDirectClub raised over $400 million while private, the company ended up giving back most of its IPO-driven valuation gain after going public. Others appear to be going strong, however, like Snackpass, which last year raised around $70 million at an over-$400 million valuation as the platform crossed 500,000 users. As of June, Green had a reported net worth of $50 million.

The Warriors’ Draymond Green will talk new media tomorrow at Disrupt • ZebethMedia

Fresh off his fourth NBA ring and a blockbuster opening night, Golden State Warriors power forward and 4x NBA champion, Draymond Green, will help us kick off the final day of Disrupt in style. Join us tomorrow at 9AM PT at the Disrupt stage in-person, or catch it live on ZebethMedia’s homepage. Green has spent the last several years building up his resume off the court, including television production deals and, most famously, his podcast, “The Draymond Green Show.” Like Green himself, the show has courted some controversy, but it’s also offered a rare level of insight into an active NBA player and the various athletes and other legendary sports figures he invites on. We’ll discuss shows like “The Countdown,” which premiered ahead of Tuesday’s season opener, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the lead up to the 2022-23 NBA season. The first episode arrived in the wake of a highly publicized practice altercation with teammate Jordan Poole, and touches on the incident and subsequent fallout. At tomorrow’s panel, we’ll discuss Green’s work in the announcer chair for TNT, tech investing and what life might look life after the NBA. See you bright and early tomorrow morning!

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