Tag: Gianluigi Ventre

Gianluigi Ventre Entrepreneurship and sports metaphors go together like—well, like Steph Curry and 3-point shots. You hear them all the time. Someone’s investor pitch was a slam dunk. That competitor really dropped the ball. The product dev team was on track, but now they’re behind the eight ball. For most of us, those metaphors are just figures of speech, but not for Gianluigi Ventre. Ventre is a former boxer who actually knows what it feels like to literally get knocked down, but get back up again. After boxing for a time in Thailand, his career ended after he sustained one too many blows to the head, and he turned to the world of online trading instead. I spoke with him recently to see what he’s taken from the ring into his life as an entrepreneur. You can’t skip the trai...