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161 Ryan Nece of Next Play Capital: From the NFL to Venture Capitalist
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast
English - June 03, 2021 20:05 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTechnology News Tech News incomedisparity siliconvalley siliconvalleycelebrities siliconvalleypolitics siliconvalleywealth startups technologycelebrities technologypeople womenintechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ryan and his dad are one of only two father/son NFL players to both win Superbowl rings. Today Ryan a venture capitalist at the firm he founded, Next Play Capital. His many co-investments include Hippo, ByteDance (TikTok), Flexport, Hims, Impossible Foods, Peloton, (IPO), and Rubrik among others.
We’ve covered a lot of paths to becoming a VC on Something Ventured, but none has run through the NFL!
In this episode we discuss the football roots of the name “Next Play”, and why there were historically so few Black people in venture capital, among many other topics. We finish with an amazing thought from Ryan on how someone might be supportive of diversity in Silicon Valley – one of the most thoughtful and poignant I’ve heard.
Next Play Capital https://www.nextplaycapital.com/
Something Ventured https://somethingventured.us/