At 16, Serena Williams Learned to Manage “Huge Checks” from a Puma Deal on Her Own, Empowered by Her Father

Serena Williams learned money management early on in her teens.

Thanks to her father, Richard, Serena has received a wealth of knowledge to apply to the business landscape. In fact, during an interview on Bloomberg Originals’ “The Deal” podcast, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, she recalls receiving substantial checks from companies including Puma. Per Andscape, Serena had reportedly received $13 million over a five-year period with the apparel brand.

What’s more, the task of managing those earnings fell entirely on her.

“Literally, my first checks from whether it was Puma, like I got these huge checks. [My dad], he’s like, you figure it out. We had to figure it out,” Serena said on the podcast. “I’m literally living at his house in the bedroom next to Venus. I was 16 and he’s like, you know, most parents, you know, they take your money. They take something. But you know, he’s like, ‘You figure it out.’ And so I remember having to figure that out and having to learn how to manage from a very early age. Yeah. And not get crazy with it. And so he empowered us to do that.”

Serena additionally adds one more badge of exhortation she has applied progressively from her dad, which is to ensure her tennis profit are the littlest of her pay. As AFROTECH™ recently referenced, Williams procured $94.8 million in prize profit during her tennis vocation.

Today, she is supposedly worth $340 million, notes Forbes.

Serena has plainly surpassed assumptions in executing that exhortation, and this was made conceivable through in excess of twelve underwriting bargains, as well as her association in helping to establish organizations, for example, Will Perform and Nine Two Six Creations.

Besides, she has faired very well in the speculation domain, which for her is what she measures as progress.

“For my purposes, achievement right presently is having extraordinary ventures,” she told has Rodriguez and Kelly.

Serena drives her own funding firm, and through it and individual speculations she has financed 16 organizations that have happened to unicorn status.

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