Is an old announcement that practice is perfect – a tennis object of something Serena Williams He knows very well. He points out that grinding is never on a path to success, in his athletic and business efforts. Patience and decision are two qualifications for winning a match -or leading an entrepreneurial project.
“Tenis is (played) every day, you must do it every day. You must do training, and business is the same,” Williams told CNBC do it in a A recent interview. “It's okay. You must be very disciplined.”
“You must also be decided in the form of ups and trouble, you are determined to continue.”
Williams has won 23 Grand Slam crowns in his 27 -year period as a tennis lover; In 2022, the Olympic athlete decided to abandon sports to focus on his business career. Began a capital fund called Serena Partnerships In 2014, where he raised multicultural entrepreneurs, Boast That its Fund 1 investment was a minimum founder of 78%, 54%women's founders, 47%black founders, and 11%of Latino founders. Serena Ventures added $ 111 million during the early funding-now, says its portfolio includes a company over $ 14 billion and several decacorns.
The new work of Williams and Serena Ventures is budding as she helps raise leaders to start with small businesses, such as the Wig-Cuthor platform ParfaitIndependent printing Wonderlandby a relationship company Oursreach new heights.
“That's one thing that I am happy to do, is to talk to these consultants about the decision that I have shown so much in my past work and just bring it to this new job,” Williams said.
Luck Reached Williams for comments.
Serena Advice: Working 28 hours a day and staying humble
Williams He tells Luck He is attracted to the founders who have personal roots for the problem that their company is trying to solve. And when it comes to advising them on leading a successful business, a decorated tennis champion says people need to go up and more.
“When I advise the founders one thing that I find myself giving it again and again is just withdrawing and not giving up,” Williams He was told Luck In a recent interview. “VC is interesting – it's a hard business, and then if the founder starts a new company, you must show up 28 hours out of 24.”
“You win a few, you lose a few. You are demolished, and you go back.”
Williams showed the same grit in his career, setting up tennis records that cannot be broken. And 367 Work wins319 weeks in a row as a one -person tennis player, and about $ 95 million for prize money, a 43 -year story should be felt over the world. But even at the height of his success, he is connected to the philosophy that brings him down to the world.
“I think the main guarantee they included in me is just humility, and I think that goes better than any champion or anything, because it makes you basic as an individual,” Williams told CNBC. “It makes you respectful, and it keeps you like everyone else, because at the end of the day, we are all the same.”
Some successful leaders stay humble and craving
Williams is not just a successful person who emphasizes the idea of grinding all hours of the day. As a major provider of “sweat balance,” a serial investor Mark Cuba has suggested “Working if there is someone working 24 hours a day to remove it all from you.” And late Apple Cofounder Steve Jobswho started working in Hewlett-Packard at the age of 13, He said Determining the reason between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs is “pure tolerance.”
Brian Niccol– CEO of Starbucksformerly had prominent roles in ChipotlePizza Hut, and Taco Bell -Ali stay with the desire to know. Despite being in support of a large $ 111 billion coffee, NICCOL He doesn't see yourself as having all the answers. Staff of all ranks still have something to teach.
“The best business advice I've ever received were: 'Don't be afraid to ask questions,'” Niccol He was told Luck last year. “No matter what position you are, even if the CEO, there is a time when someone is talking about something, (and) I don't really get what they are saying.”