{"id":29733,"date":"2018-02-07T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=29733"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:32:25","slug":"olympic-hockey-player-hangs-up-skates-for-startup-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/olympic-hockey-player-hangs-up-skates-for-startup-life","title":{"rendered":"Olympic gold medalist hangs up skates for startup life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angela Ruggiero has an impressive resume, on or off the ice. The Hockey Hall of Famer helped bring home gold for the US in 1998 at the first-ever women\u2019s hockey event at the Olympics, then medaled three more times in subsequent games. She played at the national level for a record-breaking 16 years before attending Harvard Business School and taking on positions on sports boards, including the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and as Chief Strategy Officer in Los Angeles\u2019 winning bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, Ruggiero is assembling a new team for her startup, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsilab.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Innovation Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which helps clients and partners such as Google, Verizon, and the NBA navigate the intersection of sports and technology. Based in Boston at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/buildings\/200-portland--boston--MA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeWork 200 Portland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ruggiero shared which hockey skills help her as an entrepreneur and what she\u2019ll be looking out for at the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>What did it feel like to win Olympic Gold?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a pretty amazing feeling. To actualize your dreams in any capacity is amazing. We\u2019d won world championships before, but what I didn\u2019t realize at the time was that winning at the Olympics was so much bigger than myself, my team, my sport, my country. When you\u2019re in the Olympics, you inspire people you\u2019ve never met. They\u2019re proud of you or sign up for hockey the next day. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[As an athlete,] you\u2019re just focused on your sport, but there are all these bigger implications. We\u2019re coming up on the 20th anniversary of the gold medal, and that was the first time women\u2019s hockey was in the Olympics. Having women on a visible platform in sports sends a strong message to society. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-29736 size-medium\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Ruggiero-Angela-speaking-at-sports-business-awards-2017-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34971\"\/><figcaption>Angela Ruggiero of the Sports Innovation Lab spoke at the 2017 Sports Business Awards Gala in the New York Marriott Marquis on May 24, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><b>What are your advantages from being an elite athlete that you harness in your work today?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being a team player is first. I\u2019m a big believer in the team. Everyone has different responsibilities, but everyone\u2019s important. Having direction and purpose is super important in people\u2019s lives. In business, trying to define that is important.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I competed 16 years at the national level, more than any other player, which is something I\u2019m proud of. To stay at that level required discipline but also a lot of introspection, being realistic about strengths and weaknesses. It\u2019s such a great analogy for business.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I competed 16 years at the national level. To stay at that level required discipline but also a lot of introspection.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>How did you make the leap from athlete to entrepreneur?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the reasons I started the Sports Innovation Lab was all the experience I had on the sports organization boards, including the IOC. I was also the Chief Strategy Officer for the Los Angeles 2024 bid, which we won in September. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My cofounder Josh Walker having a background at [leading tech advisory firm] Forrester Research and me having a background in the sports industry, we were figuring out what value we wanted to give to clients, and that formed what we did.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tech is disrupting sports. We describe ourselves as technology-powered services focused on the intersection of sports and tech. We use our tech to quickly understand the market. It aggregates the info that no single analyst can do, constantly pulling different data streams and in real time. We\u2019re trying to do a Forrester inside sports, using software to answer questions we get from clients.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[For example,] as leagues are coming up with wearable strategies, they want to know which one should they think about using. Our software can determine what these companies can and can\u2019t do, whether you\u2019re making a strategic investment or recommendations to players in the league. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Besides wearables, what are the new trends shaping the future of sports?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[The big trends we\u2019re looking at are] smart venues, immersive media, new ways to watch sports outside of linear TV, and next-generation sponsorship, where technology is allowing fans to engage in new ways.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-29758 size-medium\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"400\" width=\"295\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Angela-Ruggiero-defenseman-olympic-gold-medalist-hockey-player.jpg?resize=295%2C400\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29758\"\/><figcaption>Angela Ruggiero played ice hockey at the national level for 16 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><b>How are you building your team?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It starts with my relationship with my cofounder and having an enormous amount of trust and respect for him and leveraging him. Then as we set out with our plan, we\u2019re trying to find people that share our values, some of the intangibles. It comes down to experience and a thorough vetting process. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a smaller team relative to what we\u2019re doing\u201412 full time, some part-time, some interns. We put on a massive show at CES [the Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas] to create the global destination for sports technology. [At CES,] a lot of people couldn&#8217;t believe how small we are. But it\u2019s a testament to our team: Everyone\u2019s willing to pitch in and be flexible because it will take everyone to be successful.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>You\u2019re creating a lab at WeWork 200 Portland where different companies working on similar topics in sports tech can come work in the same space. What inspired that?<\/b><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At CES you feel energy, you meet people, you feel energized. 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