{"id":263894,"date":"2021-05-10T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=263894"},"modified":"2021-05-10T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:25:02","slug":"the-business-ventures-of-charles-barkley-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/the-business-ventures-of-charles-barkley-all-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business Ventures of Charles Barkley: All you Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Barkley, a former NBA player, was one of the most dominant power forwards at his time. He played the majority of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/PHO\/home\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> and was named the NBA all-star MVP in 1991 and league MVP in 1993. He participated in the Olympic Games and won the gold medal twice in 1992 and 1996 as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_men's_national_basketball_team\">Dream Team\u201d member.<\/a> However, Barkley never won a ring. Though that hasn\u2019t stopped him from making it big post his NBA career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barkley works with Turner Network Television (TNT) as an analyst for the NBA with a net worth of $40 million.\u00a0 Some of his endorsement deals are Coca-Cola, McDonald&#8217;s, Nike, Right Guard, and T-Mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Chuck Taste Testing Coffee Was Comedy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIwktKK_XbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Barkley becomes one of the many to join other <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/home\">NBA<\/a> greats in the VC game by committing capital to Alabama Futures Fund. Barkley has set up a $25 million seed-stage VC, intending to support entrepreneurs and economic development in the state of Alabama. The fund will be allocated to startups located in Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former power forward is the latest to join other NBA stars making VC investments, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-scores-33-to-lead-nets-past-nuggets\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/5-companies-owned-by-lebron-james\/\">LeBron James,<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley also had his eyes set on television with his first series, The Line. The sports drama will be based on Charley Rosen\u2019s 1999 tell-all book on sports gambling scandals in 1951. Barkley\u2019s own Round Mound Media produces the series. He is also producing an upcoming series of short films entitled Dreams, directed by Sheldon Candis and Jessie Dylan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NeuroVice, a fledgling startup, has also landed funding from Barkley. CEO and founder Ashlyn Sanders, wrote to the famous NBA legend after he appeared as a guest on ABC\u2019s Season 10 of \u201cShark Tank.\u201d, To which he wrote back and said that he would invest in her business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Charles Barkley\u2019s Deal - Shark Tank\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qcdm9NFr0os?start=50&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAshlyn\u2019s presentation was one of the most professional and charismatic business plans I\u2019ve ever been presented,\u201d Barkley said in a statement by email. \u201cI wanted to do my part in ensuring her success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Barkley is well known as an angel investor. Back in 2017, he pledged $1 million to fund Alabama black women\u2019s tech startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy goal is to help advance women in the technology field and shine a light on their efforts,\u201d he added. \u201cAshlyn is a great example of someone who will leave a major mark in the industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from his investments and ventures, Barkley has also hosted 2017\u2019s American Race \u2013 a TNT docu-series if you will, about race-related issues, which can be streamed on HULU.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barkley truly is a big man in more than one way. There have been many stories unaccounted for that involve Barkley and his benevolence. The NBA legend makes sure to help others out in need whenever possible and is known to be quite a charitable person,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Barkley, a former NBA player, was one of the most dominant power forwards at his time. He played the majority of his career with the Phoenix Suns and was named the NBA all-star MVP in 1991 and league MVP in 1993. He participated in the Olympic Games and won the gold medal twice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}