Reminds me of Steve Young
Dividing the entire rookie contract amount across so many investments and so many funds means relatively small investments in those funds.
No way any non-famous-athlete individual would be able to LP in those funds without athletic stardom attached. It's a selling point for those LPs to say he's part of their funds and they get to rub shoulders with a professional athlete.
Some of those big-name VC funds wouldn't even return your call if you wanted to invest several million dollars. Founders Fund brings in multiple billions of dollars when they raise a new fund.
His fame and status unlocked his access.
> Also I doubt that ex: Thrive LPs would care about this kind of thing.
Thrive has raised over ten billion dollars. If a normal moderately wealthy person showed up with a couple million dollars to invest they would not be invited to be an LP.
He was born and raised in Greenwich, CT. Hedge fund capital of the world. Went to school at BYU which is run by the Mormon ~Private Equity group~ Church. Played his pro career in Silicon Valley.
The stars were aligned from the start.