Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm, has one-upped Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes, part owner of US NBA team the Utah Jazz, by buying an entire basketball league, the WNBL. The deal between the Wollemi Capital Group Syndicate (WCGS) and Larry Kestelman’s National Basketball League (NBL) consortium to acquire a majority stake in the Women’s National… Read more »
Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm is the latest tech titan bitten by the sports bug, buying into Australian basketball team The Sydney Kings. Denholm’s 30% share in the Kings, via her family investment office, Wollemi Capital Group (WGC), also includes Women’s NBL club Sydney Flames. Majority owner and Kings chairman Paul Smith is… Read more »
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has solved the age-old dilemma of what to get a billionaire for Christmas by teaming up with fellow tech billionaire Ryan Smith, co-founder of Qualtrics, to buy the franchise to the US NBA team Utah Jazz. Smith, 42, was approved as majority owner of the Utah Jazz on the weekend in a… Read more »
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