In another installment of the Experts & Leaders subseries, Episode 12 features a conversation with entrepreneur, philanthropist, current chairman and investor in Oakland Roots Sports Club, Steven Aldrich. After growing up with interests in science and sports, Steven went on to find a passion for leadership in business. He turned a concept of an online insurance market designed for business school class credit into a successful company he would later sell to Intuit. He has been a founder and CEO of multiple companies and spent time as chief product officer at GoDaddy before pivoting into the sports ownership world with the Roots. Tune in to hear Steven talk about spending 4 years as a fencer at UNC, some key qualities and insights about leadership and creating successful teams, stories of selling his first company to Intuit at 26, the importance of a growth mindset, how he decided to leave GoDaddy to become an investor and chairman of the Roots, and much more.
