Alex Rodriguez Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)

Published: June 7, 2021, 8 a.m.

Alex Rodriguez had a 25-year professional baseball career, highlighted by appearing in 14 MLB All-Star Games, winning the 2009 World Series Championship as a member of the New York Yankees, and hitting 696 home runs including more grand slams than any other player in history.\xa0 \xa0 He is also is the Chairman and CEO of A-Rod Corp, an investment holding company he started at age 20 in 1995 that\xa0today\xa0spans investments in real estate, venture capital, a SPAC, and recently announced, the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team. \xa0 Our conversation covers Alex\u2019s early interest in business, lessons he learned from Warren Buffett, Magic Johnson, and Greg Norman, the strategy of A-Rod Corp, time management, leadership, and identification of partners. We then turn to his investment activities in real estate, the Slam Corp SPAC, venture capital, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, and we close discussing Alex\u2019s reflections on his year-long suspension from baseball in 2014 and the future of A-Rod Corp. \xa0 Learn More
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