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Los Angeles Chargers offensive lineman Russell Okung wants to help democratize home buying. That’s why he became an angel investor in Loftium, a new company that provides prospective homeowners with money towards their down payment in exchange for a cut of their income from a very familiar housing-related company — Airbnb. “For most, the idea […]
Los Angeles Chargers safety and special teams standout Darrell Stuckey isn’t just an early user of WHOOP who started wearing it in October. He has said he wore it during games a few times last season by taping over the device. The data that WHOOP provided Stuckey was on display last week at the Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH conference […]
Denver Broncos’ Russell Okung might live in the trenches on Sundays but off the gridiron, the Pro Bowl left tackle is squarely situated at the heart of sports and technology. In December, the Oklahoma State University graduate was named one of six Athlete Advisory Board members for the NFLPA’s OneTeam Collective, the first athlete-driven accelerator program […]
The following is an op-ed by Russell Okung, a Pro-Bowl Left Tackle in the NFL for the Denver Broncos and an investor in numerous technology companies, including Andela, Matcherino, Omni, and Shyft. Okung is the co-founder of the GREATER Foundation, which seeks to educate and mentor young people of color to succeed in the tech […]
