SPORTS WAS THE BRIDGE INTO TECH for underserved communities?
This Hooper became a mechanical engineer at 19 years old & after 4-ACL surgeries, no access to expensive shooting machines, or pro-trainers, he decided to build his own.
Only 1% of athletes make it to the NBA. What about the other 99% ?
GRIND's Mission is to use sports to funnel 100M kids into high paying STEM careers by 2030.
19 years old hooper turned into a mechanical engineer to change the world through basketball.
2014
An Athlete with Broken Knees
Top 100 Houston Ranked recruit, Thomas Fields tore his ACL for the 4th time. Coming out of HS he was denied access to his schools Shooting Machine that he loved using.
That's when the idea came to him, TheWorld's 1st Portable Shooting Machine.
2015
The Garage Startup
19 years old Thomas went into his parents Garage and called one of his friends that was attending welding school. Thomas asked him to teach him how to weld and he was off to the races.
2016
Locked-In
Designing a patened system that would pass basketballs to the 3-point line while folding down to a duffel bag was challanging. Over 300 interation on passing mechanisims and structures
2017
Pitching for the 1st time [Red-Labs]
After 2 years of junior college Thomas was finally accespted into Univeristy of Houston & before he cold take a class he signed up for the technology accelorator for student startup companies. If you had an idea they would help refine your idea, business model and stragety. Then you would pitch infront of 400 mentors, investors and people with alot of money. We didn't get any investors but Thomas got into a pitch compition after this and won $5k.
The guy who write that check ended up becoming our first big investor {Shoutout to Big Z]
2018
Bootstrapped
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