Season 2 Episode 4

From Wall Street to Shark Tank: Reinventing Wealth and Sports Ownership with Rashaun Williams

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In this episode of The Power Forward Pod, the team welcomes an incredible guest Rashaun Williams— a venture capitalist, private equity leader, mentor to athletes and entrepreneurs, and a Shark on ABC's Shark Tank. From humble beginnings on the South Side of Chicago to launching a groundbreaking sports investment fund with Mark Cuban, his journey is all about resilience, reinvention, and redefining success.

What's Inside this Episode:

How early struggles with money and opportunity fueled a mission to teach financial literacy and create generational wealth.
What really happens behind the scenes of Shark Tank — and how integrity drives every investment decision.
How the new “Sports 2.0” model is changing professional sports ownership and opening doors for innovative investors.

🎧 Tune in now for an inspiring, insight-packed conversation on leadership, legacy, and learning to see opportunity where others see limits.

About Rashaun Williams

Rashaun Williams is Founder, CIO of Harbinger Sports Partners & Guest Shark on ABC's Shark Tank. He is also a Limited Partner with the Atlanta Falcons and has over 170 investments under his belt with over 50 exits. Mr. Williams is the founder of his family office Value Investment Group and was a general partner in the MVP All-Star Fund. He co-founded venture capital fund Queensbridge Venture Partners where he was an early investor in companies like Robinhood, Coinbase, Casper, Ring, PillPack, Lyft & Dropbox.

An expert in illiquid secondaries he started his career at Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Wachovia Securities & Deutsche Bank doing over-the-counter fixed income. That inspired his journey into illiquid secondaries in venture capital and now pro sports teams. In 2007 he founded Dixsville Partners, a private equity fund investing in infrastructure development and mineral companies in West Africa.

With a passion for financial literacy and entrepreneurship Mr. Williams founded the Kemet Institute in 2001, a non-profit focused on providing free financial literacy, entrepreneurship and life skills classes to under-served communities and schools. He is currently on the Board of Directors for The Atlanta Opera, is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. and summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College.

About Harbinger Sports Partners

Harbinger Sports Partners represents the second generation of sports investment firms, combining sophisticated predictive analytics with deep operational expertise across major U.S. sports leagues.

Unlike traditional sports investment groups led primarily by financial engineers, the Harbinger team has built, operated, and sold successful franchises across all three major leagues. This operational DNA allows us to see opportunities others miss and execute strategies others cannot deliver. Our differentiated approach to creating liquidity in traditionally illiquid markets provides institutional investors with expanded access to this exclusive asset class.

Disclosure

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