Serena Williams’ first love will always be tennis. She’s a 23-time Grand Slam champion after all. She’s probably the most famous tennis player in the world.
But these days, her family comes before anything else. The 40-year-old athlete/investor gave birth to her daughter, Olympia, nearly five years ago with her husband, Alexis Ohanian. This means her work days look a lot different now.
She told PEOPLE the following:
Now when I prepare for a tournament, I practice in the morning, I take VC calls in the afternoon and then I spend time with Olympia, and that didn’t happen five years ago.
Five or six years ago, she was probably practicing all day and all night. The majority of her life has been dedicated to tennis, so sharing her time with other people is a new concept for her.
It’s totally different. I can’t imagine having this conversation with you a little while ago and saying that this is what my life looks like.
Not only is her daughter getting a lot of her time now, but Serena is also becoming a legit businesswoman. She recently partnered with Cash App for their new ‘That’s Money’ campaign.
That was another thing that I thought was really good, to use my platform to raise awareness around opportunities of money management and the opportunities that Cash App has to offer.
Additionally, her company Serena Ventures, is looking to provide opportunities for more women of color in the venture capital world.
We invest in women, we invest in women of color, we invest in people of color. A lot of these companies talk about diversity, but they just talk about it. It’s because it’s a good subject that they bring up, but they don’t really do a lot of things about it. And so at Serena Ventures we do, we talk about it. We be about it.
