Last month I said goodbye to Future. Today, I’m thrilled to start my next chapter as Head of Human Performance Investing & Evolution Strategy Lead with TXV Partners. To say my journey has been unconventional is an understatement. What began as a dream (and declaration) to play for the Chicago Bulls, led me to become their strength coach. How I got from there to venture capital is best captured by something I learned in the startup world: “Don’t ever be the best at what you do, be the only one who does it.” As a Coach, I was never the best but—having been mentored by the best—I created an n=1, athlete-centered approach to training that was uniquely my own which empowered our athletes to become the decision makers. The result was a 99.8% player availability rate across 7 seasons, and a lot of team and individual success. When I joined Future, I wasn’t the best person to build our team and scale a coaching business. But, I was the only one with the necessary perspective crazy enough to do it. With that leap, I led the charge to build the world’s best coaching team and what is now the single largest provider of personal training. I also learned firsthand what it takes to scale a team from zero to hundreds, and take a company from seed stage (and beta testing) to series C (and >$100m raised). I’ve never been the best at any point in my journey, but I’ve always managed to carve out a unique path to success by finding and attracting the best talent to learn from, and putting those people in the right positions to build incredible teams that deliver world class results. Now as I jump head first into the venture world, the blueprint remains the same: No other investor has gone from Coach (and becoming a deep subject matter expert of elite performance), to early-stage operator (and helping scale a category-defining company). What makes me different is what sets me apart. Until 5 years ago VC was entirely foreign to me; today my path has led right where I was always meant to be (even if I didn’t know it until now). As one of our first investors at Future, @Marcus_Stroud became a mentor and close friend I came to rely on early in my startup journey. There was something special about what he was building, that inspired me to dream even bigger. Having a front-row seat to watch TXV make early investments in other category-defining companies like @ouraring and @Levels, I began to feel our world’s colliding. And soon I realized, the best way for me to help @futurefitapp reach the next ambitious set of milestones was from a new seat as an investor. In joining TXV, I’m excited to further Future’s mission—to help millions better manage their daily health—by using my platform to act as a bridge uniting the best founders; so together we can one day help billions. Investing across professional sports and the human performance space allows me to operate squarely where my unique blend of experiences and expertise intersect with my superpowers, passions, and purpose—to solve a problem far greater than winning or losing a game… Right now, we are facing a massive health crisis. For the first time in human history, life expectancy has decreased as the result of chronic, preventable disease, deaths of despair, and plague. Healthcare 2.0 has given us incredible breakthroughs over the last century, but ultimately it has been built to manage, not cure, or prevent chronic conditions. Today, that’s no longer good enough. Together with my partners at TXV, I’m on a mission to spur the next evolution of healthcare by introducing a new paradigm: Human Performance The next breakthrough in longevity and healthspan will happen by redefining 5 critical elements — how we Move, Eat, Sleep, Manage Stress, and Work.. Such that we have access to (and understand) the right personal data in real time, with the right experts to help us craft the right n=1 approach at the right moment to manage our daily health. To do so, and get it right, will be a massive undertaking that requires the very best founders/teams, experts, and investors to join forces with a positive-sum mindset to build a new version of healthcare that focuses on: - HEALTH; not sickness - PREVENTION; not treatments - HABITS; not interventions If you’re building something to further this shared vision, or you want to learn more about what we’re up to @TXVPARTNERS — drop me a line. Let’s build the future together!! 🚀

@Danimal__2 Thank you, brother!

@PeterDAmbrosio Amen, brother! Appreciate you 🙏🏽

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