48 min
Shawn Green - Pitching to VCs and Swinging for the Fences with Greenfly The Game Plan
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- Self-Improvement
The Game Plan welcomes its first Major League Baseball veteran; Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award winner and Chairman & Co-Founder of Greenfly, Shawn Green.
Shawn Green spent 15 years as a Major Leaguer, including time with the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Mets. In this episode, we discuss how Shawn showed an early interest in technology during his playing career, and how he would use that passion to develop skills off-the-diamond each offseason. We also explore how someone who made over $100M during his playing career finds the drive and motivation to build a venture-backed SaaS company.
Investors and entrepreneurs will find this conversation especially interesting as we take a deep dive into the Greenfly product, and discuss Shawn's experience in the founding of the company, bringing on a Co-Founder, and raising over $14.5M from funds like Alpha Edison, Elysian Park and even Tim's fund, TACK Ventures.
While we recorded this conversation prior to the Coronavirus crisis, as a content management platform, the Greenfly product is especially interesting to explore during this time of distributed teams and remote work.
You can follow Shawn on Twitter (@shawngreen15) and Instagram (@15ShawnGreen), and keep up with the latest on Greenfly via Twitter (@Greenfly) & LinkedIn (@Greenfly, Inc).
Follow co-hosts Jay Kapoor (@JayKapoorNYC) and Tim Katt (@Tim_Katt) for all things sports, media, tech, and venture capital.
Follow The Game Plan on Twitter (@thegameplanshow) and Instagram (@gameplanshow) for show news and updates, to recommend guests, and for bonus content!
The Game Plan welcomes its first Major League Baseball veteran; Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award winner and Chairman & Co-Founder of Greenfly, Shawn Green.
Shawn Green spent 15 years as a Major Leaguer, including time with the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Mets. In this episode, we discuss how Shawn showed an early interest in technology during his playing career, and how he would use that passion to develop skills off-the-diamond each offseason. We also explore how someone who made over $100M during his playing career finds the drive and motivation to build a venture-backed SaaS company.
Investors and entrepreneurs will find this conversation especially interesting as we take a deep dive into the Greenfly product, and discuss Shawn's experience in the founding of the company, bringing on a Co-Founder, and raising over $14.5M from funds like Alpha Edison, Elysian Park and even Tim's fund, TACK Ventures.
While we recorded this conversation prior to the Coronavirus crisis, as a content management platform, the Greenfly product is especially interesting to explore during this time of distributed teams and remote work.
You can follow Shawn on Twitter (@shawngreen15) and Instagram (@15ShawnGreen), and keep up with the latest on Greenfly via Twitter (@Greenfly) & LinkedIn (@Greenfly, Inc).
Follow co-hosts Jay Kapoor (@JayKapoorNYC) and Tim Katt (@Tim_Katt) for all things sports, media, tech, and venture capital.
Follow The Game Plan on Twitter (@thegameplanshow) and Instagram (@gameplanshow) for show news and updates, to recommend guests, and for bonus content!
48 min