Antoine Bethea has 12 years in the NFL, making 3 Pro Bowl appearances and winning a Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts in 2006. While he has undoubtedly had an incredible NFL career, his goal is to be even more successful off the field, in the world of tech, through his Safe Coverage Foundation and with a youth academy in Virginia called Shutdown Academy 757.

I caught up with the detail oriented Bethea this offseason to learn more about his off-field pursuits and also a bit of what he thinks of some current issues in the NFL.

When did you first become enamored with tech and what was your first investment in the space?

Bethea: The [Mark] Zuckerberg story was when I first got enamored with tech. When you hear about how he created the platform Facebook, how it started from a meeting to where it is now. I think that opened peoples’ eyes in terms of what tech was at that point and where its going.

Of course, being in the NFL that’s how you interact with fans, through technology. We also utilize social media platforms in many other ways. Being able to monetize different opportunities on these platforms. There are a lot of things tech can do for us good and bad. But the opportunities that it provides myself and guys in positions like myself, you would be a fool not to be inclined or interested in the tech space. Everything we do in our life now is technology, so why not get involved with it?

My first investment was in an application called Fan Date/Star Date and now it has changed to VYU Labs.

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