Kobe Bryant joins long list of celebrities investing in tech
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1RCJ4)
Basketball star joins a growing list of famous venture capitalists who, having earned a fortune in one field, look to Silicon Valley to lose a fortune in another
There are no second acts in American lives. There are only Series B financing rounds.
Four months after Kobe Bryant ended a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers by going 6 for 21 from the three-point line against the Utah Jazz, the retired basketball star revealed in the Wall Street Journal that he would be launching a venture capital fund with partner Jeff Stibel.
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