Before the NBA season, Golden State Warriors assistant general manager Kirk Lacob was named vice president of GSW Sports Ventures and placed in charge of ventures that include continued efforts to develop partnerships for basketball operations and leading investments in sports-related areas.
Lacob, the son of the Warriors’ venture capitalist owner, explained Tuesday how GSW Sports Ventures would capitalize on the team’s Silicon Valley proximity and possibly get into investing in technologies.
“Being in Silicon Valley, we have a lot of advantages over other sports teams or companies, and GSW Sports Ventures is something new, and we’re still kind of figuring out exactly what it’s going to be in the end,” Lacob said in a webinar in partnership with Zoom Video Communications.