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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…”
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…”
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.”
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: MLB players average 5.5-year careers, earn 90% of income before 30
“One, baseball players play an average of five and a half years. You play 90% of your career from age 20 to 30. And make 90% of your income from age 20 to 30 and less than five percent of baseball players at the professional level have a college degree.”
Rodriguez grew real estate portfolio to over 10,000 units across 14 states
“I had my first opportunity to buy a duplex. I needed a 48,000 dollar down payment. I needed a loan from the bank. I did both. That led to selling it for double, and then a fourplex and an eightplex, and then I ended up growing that portfolio to over 10,000 apa…”
Rodriguez: Greg Norman Took Cobra Golf Equity Over Endorsement Fees
“And he was an early guy that got, took stock into the, I think it was King Cobras. And made a small fortune and then kept building it from there. But he had the foresight to say, don't pay me a fee, pay me an ownership in equity or warrants. And it played out …”