One way to get an tour of Johnson Space Center’s high-security Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is to question whether people landed on the moon at all. At least that strategy works if you’re an NBA basketball star like Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. It all started on Monday, with Curry’s riffs on “Winging It,” a basketball-centric podcast on The Ringer. Curry and other basketball players touched on a variety of topics, ranging from golf simulators to dinosaur sounds. After wondering how scientists know what sounds dinosaurs made, Curry segued to the moon-hoax controversy (at around 46:46 in the… Read More
It certainly helps to have Steph Curry on your side, either on the court or in the startup world. The 29-year-old sharpshooting NBA star — who is also a talented golfer and made his professional debut this week — is the co-founder of Slyce, a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2015 that we covered last year. Slyce originally launched as a platform that helped athletes and celebrities sort through social media noise and increase engagement with their most loyal fans. But Slyce co-founder Bryant Barr, a former college hoops teammate of Curry and long-time friend, told GeekWire that his 8-person company pivoted… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry loves Instagram, supports Hillary Clinton, and wants robotic referees — if only to prevent him from throwing any more mouthguards. Those were a few of the tidbits from Curry’s appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt on Tuesday evening in San Francisco, closing out Day 2 of the annual tech conference with a wide-ranging 30-minute discussion about everything from the election to his various off-the-court projects. Curry was the final speaker to walk on stage Tuesday, but certainly received the loudest applause from the hometown crowd as many from the packed room at Pier 48 rushed near the stage… Read More
Stephen Curry wants to reach millions of Chinese basketball fans, and he’s getting help from a San Francisco-based startup to do it. The NBA star this week announced a partnership with PressPlay, a new company that teams up with celebrities to help grow their brands across the globe. PressPlay will work with Curry to create content for white-label mobile apps and websites used by Chinese consumers, who will get access to exclusive training videos, live-streamed events, Q&A sessions, video diaries, and more behind-the-scenes material — all featuring the NBA MVP. There is also an e-commerce component to the partnership, as users will be… Read More
