# Juventus' Giorgio Chiellini - life lessons in sports and business from a world-class performer on and off the field Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/juventus-giorgio-chiellini-life-lessons-in-sports-and-business-from-a-world-class-performer-on-and-off-the-field Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/juventus-giorgio-chiellini-life-lessons-in-sports-and-business-from-a-world-class-performer-on-and-off-the-field.md Podcast: [Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568) Published: 2026-06-11T08:50:17+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a4ddb221 Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/a4ddb221/d629f3fc.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/episodes/juventus-giorgio-chiellini-life-lessons-in-sports-and-business-from-a-world-class-performer-on-and-off-the-field Duration seconds: 3343 ## Resource Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We went to a mecca of football to film the latest episode. This conversation takes us to Turin, Italy, where we were in the Juventus Creator Lab with Italian football (I mean soccer for the Americans) legend and one of the best defenders of all time Giorgio Chiellini . Giorgio’s career and playing style were defined by Juventus’ very motto, fino alla fine (“until the end”). It’s also a mentality that he brings to every aspect of life on and off the pitch. After an illustrious playing career at one of the world’s biggest clubs, Juventus, and a career that also included two World Cup appearances for Italy and winning the Euro 2020 as the Captain of Italy, Giorgio came back home to Turin rejoin the club where he starred for 17 years: Juventus. Giorgio has gone from the pitch to the boardroom, helping to lead Juventus as the Director of Football Strategy. He has brought the player’s perspective to the business side of football, balancing the nuances of sports and business. Despite the demands that Giorgio faced on the field as a player to maintain a standard of play at the highest levels of the game, he found time during his career to pursue his passion for business. He received his MBA while playing for Juventus and also was involved in the player development side in his final years as a player at LAFC. More recently, he became an investor in LAFC and in Mercury13, a multi-club investor in women’s football teams, including FC Como. He’s also an active investor in the European startup community. Giorgio and I had a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation that covered several dimensions of the business of sport. We discussed: How teams, owners, and investors can balance both the sport and business aspects of the game. What… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/episodes/juventus-giorgio-chiellini-life-lessons-in-sports-and-business-from-a-world-class-performer-on-and-off-the-field/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/juventus-giorgio-chiellini-life-lessons-in-sports-and-business-from-a-world-class-performer-on-and-off-the-field.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.