Alex Rodriguez
Chairman & CEO, A-Rod Corp. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alex Rodriguez is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of investment firm A-Rod Corp and co-owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Prior to his business career, he played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, winning three American League MVP awards and a World Series championship.
2shows
2appearances
36statements
11resolved
7supported
3contradicted
64%fully supported
28said about them ↓ Everything Alex Rodriguez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Rodriguez admits his PED suspension may cost him the Hall of Fame
“This thing that I did, May cost me the Hall of Fame, and that will suck, but I have no one to blame but myself.”
Alex Rodriguez: 2014 MLB Suspension Was Longest Ever for PEDs
“Fast forward all the way to 20 14, when I got suspended from Major League Baseball the longest suspension for PDUs”
Alex Rodriguez: Eliminate mid-tier candidates immediately to avoid being tricked
“The tens and the fives are easy to recognize. The tens, you know, jump out of the page, and the fives are people you're probably not going to hire. The challenge is when you have the six and the sevens, and the six and the sevens have the gift of gab, and are …”
Alex Rodriguez: 95% of kids quit sports on the ride home
“I see where 95% of kids quit their sport on the ride home with their parents.”
Alex Rodriguez pauses all real estate purchases amidst interest rate uncertainty
“I think our strategy on continuing to buy real estate assets, I've basically put a pause on everything. And we're sitting back and just watching and seeing where the Fed goes with interest rates.”
Warren Buffett structured Rodriguez's $30M Yankees milestone home run bonus deal
“So he says, okay, there's five big records out there, homerun records. Willie Mays, and he goes one by one. Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth. So if you hit all those five, And you get a six million dollar bonus in each one of them. They will be happy. I said…”
A-Rod Corp prepares to acquire an NBA team and launch a SPAC
“The other thing is I have to be able to think about big ideas and then go out and execute those ideas, whether that's the NBA team we're about to acquire Whether that's our SPAC business, which is, we're very, very excited about, or whether it's creating this …”
Rodriguez prefers hiring athletes because they work late and ignore the clock
“I like athletes, because athletes, two things, they don't punch a clock. They just go out and get the job done, and if a deal has to go to three in the morning, you just get that job done, and that's something I really enjoyed about athletes.”
Modern kids aspire to be like Marc Lore as much as LeBron
“Today, kids want to be like Mark Laurie and Mark Cuban, just as much as they want to be like LeBron James. Now, LeBron James is both because he's a great businessman and a goat on the basketball court, but the truth is, is not good enough for these young guys …”
Alex Rodriguez: Focus narrow and deep rather than wide and shallow
“The thought that I always share with my team is this whole idea that I see a lot of young people make this mistake where they go wide and shallow, and they try to be experts at all things, and we always talk about, at A-Rod Corp, narrow and deep.”
Alex Rodriguez: Athletes should do TV work to stay connected to younger fans
“Lean into your superpowers. Mine is basketball, yours is baseball. So go out and be the best baseball player you can. And when you have an opportunity you know, continue to do television work when you're playing, when you're done playing, so you can stay conne…”
Alex Rodriguez: Sports teams must blend institutional capital with passionate legacy owners
“But if there's a combination, Harry, where you can still remain and keep the Robert Krafts, the Jerry Joneses the Buss family still involved in the forefront, And because these franchises have exploded in enterprise value, then I think is a good mix because yo…”
Alex Rodriguez predicts sports franchises will shift to direct-to-consumer distribution
“But I do think that there's going to be a world where it's going to be a lot more franchise direct to consumer. And that means with the way you watch the sport how you interact with players, how you interact with Buying merchandise, and everything in between.”
Alex Rodriguez credits team collaboration over individual effort for all major achievements
“I think that we very, at least in my life, anything that I've done that's been horrific has been by myself. Anything that I've done that's been great has very little to do with me and really around the people that we've collected around the room to work as a t…”
Warren Buffett insured the final three years of Rodriguez's $252M Rangers contract
“The last three or four years was almost impossible to insure because there wasn't a lot of comps. So we had no problem the first five to seven years, but Tom Hicks was having a hard time with the last three years. I guess he put word out in the market and Warr…”
Rodriguez advises retired athletes to build business authority via TV and speaking
“So basically, in a nutshell, the two big takeaways was, you should always try to do some television when you're done, because that'll keep your name and your brand out there with the consumer. And then two, you should do as much public speaking as you can, bec…”
Rodriguez: Celebrities face higher skepticism and disadvantages in business pitches
“Knowing that as a celebrity, or an athlete, or an entertainer, you're not going in with no strikes, you're going in with two and a half strikes.”
A-Rod Corp invested in Hims & Hers at $300M, reached $3B+ valuation
“So that was an investment that went in at three hundred million dollars or so. We took it public early this year at 1.6 billion. It went over three billion dollars.”
A-Rod Corp plans to take 6 to 7 portfolio companies public annually
“We're taking about six or seven public this year and 21, probably the same next year.”
Rodriguez and Marc Lore took Archer Aviation from $100M to $3.6B IPO
“Archer, Mark and I came in sub a hundred million dollars. Mark was a big, big investor there. I came in a little bit later and we took Archer from a hundred million dollars and it went public at 3.6 billion. And all this happened in less than two years.”
Rodriguez: Real estate cash flows hedge downside risks in venture investments
“On the venture side, because of who we are and what we've built and the brand we've built, we feel like we can invest in companies at favorable terms, With some downside protection that has an opportunity to be a home run or grand slam in real estate. We never…”
Rodriguez: NBA franchises operate as global media and entertainment platforms
“So I look at these platforms today more like media, sports, entertainment platforms that are, when you look at the NBA, it's a great league. It's a league that's global. It's a league that has joined its tailwinds. It's a league that has young demographics and…”
Leaving money on the table generates repeat deals and superior long-term returns
“If I can sell you this for one dollar, yeah, I can sell it to you for one 40 because I have the hammer and I have the leverage, but that'll be the last deal that I ever did with Ted, right? But if I can sell you this for nine bucks, when you know it's worth 10…”
The other half of the tape: Alex Rodriguez's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 26 times in 9 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 8Craig Bergstrom 8Brent Montgomery 5Sarah Samuels 2Ted Seides 1Marc Lore 1Chris Sacca 1
Statements about Alex Rodriguez, by other people (2)
Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez took a 40% stake in NowWith
“Albert Potkin and Nicole Winneman just announced recently that me and Alex Rodriguez invested We did take a 40% stake in the company and it's in social commerce.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
Capital Allocators 16
20VC 10
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 15 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- Himanshu Gulati – Antara Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.19)
- 20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- 20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
- Ted Seides – Interviewing and Manager Meetings (Capital Allocators, EP.94)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | Chairman & CEO, A-Rod Corp | 1 | 22 | 88% 7/8 | full record on Capital Allocators → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Chairman & CEO, A-Rod Corp | 1 | 14 | 0% 0/3 | full record on 20VC → |