Former NBA Player Omri Casspi on Moving from the Locker Room to the Boardroom

Today’s guest is former NBA player Omri Casspi. Notably, he’s the first Israeli drafted to play in the NBA, he’s the managing director of the Omri Casspi Foundation, he’s got a VC fund, he’s even got his own podcast. Omri is now part of this crossover group of athletes in the right place at the right time. Less than a year after retiring, he co-founded his fund Sheva (seven in Hebrew) with David Citron. Their $50 million fund is focused on pre-seed and seed stage high-tech startups. I had a chance to spend time one on one with Omri in Tel Aviv and am suitably impressed. (Full disclosure: I’m an investor in his fund.) And now he’s back for an in-depth discussion on moving from professional sports to investing. Enjoy.  Guest - Omri Casspi, Tech Investor, Partner at Sheva, Managing Director at the Omri Casspi Foundation  howardlindzon.com  Twitter: @howardlindzon, @Casspi18, @PanicwFriends, @knutjensen  linkedin.com/in/omri-casspi-3a575173  facebook.com/Omri #fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance  Show Notes: (00:39) – Intro (04:37) – Welcome Omri (06:04) – The NBA draft (12:17) – Moving back to Israel (13:30) – Playing in the NBA (14:06) – Similarities between sports teams and founders (17:37) – Bringing value (19:18) – Back to hoops (26:06) – Web3 infrastructure play (29:06) – Getting an investing edge (30:36) – Helping founders succeed (33:43) – Hosting a podcast (35:21) – Screening investments (37:30) – Israeli politics (40:24) – The wallet is the thing (42:48) – Wrapping up (43:50) – Closing thoughts