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Jaylen Brown

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
409 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

It's only been a year or so.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

We've had one of our groups or one of our companies that we've invested in land a large government contract at the Children's Museum.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

They deal with food quality for children.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

She deals with food quality for infants and adolescents and things like that.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

And they apply for

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

According to them, they applied to get this contract through the museum a few times, and then they got denied.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

And then once people saw that we were connected through our accelerator program, the contract got approved.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

So now that puts them in more doors, gives them more visibility, and I think they're on the way to being successful.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

It's also a hair care line that's doing really well.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

I think they're probably doing the best out of all of our groups.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

I forget the name right now of the company, but it's a hair care group that's from Boston that we've also invested in in the last year.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

They were already very talented, but they're starting to emerge and they're able to get other people to invest as well.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

And that's a part of it.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

We wanted to just create the motion for other people to be able to see the talent that's here.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

because now they're getting some notoriety and now they're able to go and get into doors that maybe they weren't able to get into before.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

That's a part of it.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

Just creating that social capital is a step of it.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

We don't want to just give companies money and just disappear and just think like we have programming that they come and sign up how to better their business.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

They did programming at Harvard that they had to go through.

Bloomberg Talks
NBA Star Jaylen Brown Talks Player Equity

They had programming at MIT that they had to go through how to develop.