This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by his friend and serial entrepreneur, Rasheen Smith. Rasheen is the founder at Flexpower, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Realcast, and is also currently a Venture Partner at Elefund. To start the show and better understand how Rasheen came to think like he does, Nick has Rasheen dive into his upbringing and his path to playing college basketball with big names. As they get into Rasheen’s start in entrepreneurship after his days of playing, they begin to jump into his first business ideas and how he came to create Flexpower. Rasheen talks about Realcast and the future with “extended reality” and video games, and why this project is so important to him. Nick asks about the technology based VC firm “Endure” that Rasheen is currently a Venture Partner at, and how that came to happen. As the show comes to an end, the two talk about how the mindset of the athlete has changed over the years since Rasheen was actively playing, and how our media today has played a major role in doing so.

- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasheensmith/

- Flexpower - https://www.flexpower.com/

- Realcast - https://realcast.io/

- Elefund - https://elefund.com/

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