How Serena Built a Billion-Dollar Mindset

And talking about tennis only lasting so long, you know, now you're obviously focused on being a great mom and family, you know, part of the family and the venture side, right? Serena Ventures and the investments and you have a podcast now and, you know, a new show on Amazon.

Can you talk a little about, you know, how you're doing all those things and what inspires you to do all of those things?

Yeah.

So for me, when it comes to investing, Ventures is super important.

And that's what I do every day is Ventures and Serena Ventures is a company that I built and we invest in.

We invest in women.

We invest in underrepresented founders and ideas and products that are helping underrepresented people.

through technology, through fintech, AI, B2B, SaaS stuff.

And that's something that I've always enjoyed.

But my biggest joy is definitely being a mom.

I love being a mom.

It's something that I truly love.

And I try to think that is my number one job right now.

And, you know, I just always want to just continue to build my team out to do their best job so I can be the best mom that I can be.

Well, I was going to ask you, you said that earlier, that's the leadership side, right? You know, I have about 140 employees and staff and it becomes a whole different ballgame from when you start with 5, 10, 20, right? So how have you had to evolve as a leader as you've gone into the entrepreneur

side? Yeah, no, I feel like I was able to evolve as a leader in tennis.

Yeah.

And when tennis first started, I wasn't a leader.

My dad was on the team, then I had a coach.

But then it became a team sport.

It wasn't, even though it's a solo sport and it's one person out there, it became a completely team sport, whereas you needed a team.

And nowadays, I understand tennis players have at least 10 people on their team now.

When I retired, it was like at least four, it was like five to six people.

And now it's doubled.

And leading that team really helped me as an entrepreneur and understanding like who to hire, how to hire, how to be and how to be.