[jjmarr]

He's a retired pro basketball player. He's since made early investments in companies like Hugging Face[1], Coinbase, and Robinhood.[2] If you earn millions in your 20s, didn't spend it, and have a killer work ethic, you can flip careers to professional investor.

Idk why nobody's done a good feature on him.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kevin-durant-investment-portf...

[2] https://parlemag.com/2025/04/kevin-durant-business-ventures/

[meagher]

I'm not questioning his investment abilities, just curious what he offers that is strategic (advice, dealmaking, etc).

Aside: Saquon Barkley's (pro football player) portfolio is insane https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/saquon-barkley-investment-p...

[didgeoridoo]

The ability of your enterprise sales team to invite a $50M deal prospect to a luxury box with Kevin Durant is not to be underestimated.

[htrp]

This 100%

KD is trying to be steve young and leverage his bay area fame to get a seat at the table

[harmmonica]

Not retired (plays for Houston) but doesn’t lessen your point one bit.

[jjmarr]

lol that's egg on my face. I just assumed he wouldn't be working two full time jobs at once.

That's wild.

[skeeter2020]

He's an hall of fame basketball player who has made a shit-ton of money, drafted after one year of collge with a team of bankers investing his money, he's definitely not "hustling two jobs" simultaneously. The semi-remarkable thing is he hasn't blown his wealth on gambling or pet sharks.

[snayan]

If it were that easy, the norm wouldn't be blowing the wealth on gambling or pet sharks lol.

If he has successfully assembled a team of bankers that has been as successful as his portfolio suggests, while allowing him to be completely hands off, the man clearly has talents beyond the basketball court.

[mi_lk]

A good feature wouldn't call KD a retired NBA player yet :)