8 Professional Athletes Turned Business Icons

BENGALURU: The world of athletes is not only confined to the sports world but they are also known for their entrepreneurship skills. Although the career of professional athletes needs more effort and daily practice in their life, the winning does not stop till the game is over.

Sport and business need some similar skills and tactics to reach great heights like demand, competition, team spirit and fixing a goal to achieve. Business Insider has identified few professional athletes who are successful entrepreneurs in today’s business world:

1. Venus Williams: Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former world’s no. 1 tennis player and a three time Olympic gold medalist. She is credited as the first American black women who changed the women’s game ushering modern era of power in women’s tennis tour.

Although she is widely known as for her athletic skills all the time, she is also a powerful entrepreneur with lots of talks about her winning spirit in business. The multiple Grand Slam tennis champion has emerged to be a successful business women with the same competitive spirit. She is the CEO of the two companies, V Starr Interiors and the EleVen. The former being an interior design firm and the later being an athletic clothing line, Venus is proving herself to be a perfect and an impressive professional in today’s business era.

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