#847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris, and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers to try to break down How they have done. What they've done. What you can copy and paste. and test in your own lives. And it can take many different forms. This interview

Has been probably two years in the making. I was so happy. to finally have it happen. Steve Young, also very timely. Right about now at the time of recording. Steve Young. Is a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback who played more than 15 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers. He was Super Bowl 29 MVP, earning sports illustrated and sporting news player of the year honors from 1992 to 94, and won the NFL MVP Award in both 92 and 94. When he retired, He held the all-time record for highest quarterback rating and remains the only quarterback to win four consecutive NFL passing titles.

What makes him also very interesting to me is that he's a multi-hyphenant. So the story did not end there. He didn't fade into obscurity after football. Young became an ESPN analyst and a private equity executive. He co-founded HGGC, which manages Roughly nine billion dollars in capital commitments and there have been some amazing, amazing Profiles of him which initially piqued my interest because he seems to have been so good at reinvention and also high performance, not

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