Shaquille O’Neal is a busy man. The four-time NBA champion is a broadcaster, a partner in multiple franchises, an investor, a philanthropist, and an educator. And all of those pieces come together in his latest project, The Grind, a three-episode YouTube series that features entrepreneurial students of the online teaching platform Campus competing for $60,000 in prize money.
“We wanted to give these kids and young adults a chance to pitch,” Shaq told Entrepreneur for an upcoming episode of the How Success Happens podcast. “We wanted to see grit, resilience, determination, and belief, and they came up with some great ideas. It was great to see.”
The show was filmed at Campus investor Joe Lonsdale‘s home in Austin, and Shaq was joined by judges Jennifer Hyman (CEO of Rent the Runway) and Poppy Thorpe (Snapchat board …