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SI's Ben Pickman joined Madelyn Burke to discuss Celtics rookie Grant Williams' interesting connection to space. Williams' mother, Teresa, has worked at NASA for more than thirty years in a few different capacities. Pickman shares how Williams' mother and curiosity about space has taken him on the path of nurturing several other interests. Video Transcript: Madelyn Burke: For Grant Williams, the recent SpaceX and NASA launch was something special. The Celtics rookie has always had an interest in space. His mother is a big part of that. She's an engineer who's worked at NASA for three decades.

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And, you know, as I mentioned, SpaceX at NASA, they recently launched two astronauts to the International Space Station. Did he have a story about watching that launch or what it meant to him? Ben Pickman: Yeah, I mean, this was a historic moment, a remember where you were kind of moment, as Williams described it. Now, he was in the house of Kemba Walker in Charlotte, which is where he is spending his quarantine, his hiatus from the NBA. And Williams was really excited about the launch in particular. And he said the thing that is amazing to him is just the different kinds of launches, the different kinds of shuttles, the different kinds of launch pads and launch procedures that we've seen in recent years. That kind of change, that evolution, that advancement, he said, is something that's really jumped out to him.

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Young's company invests in these startups hoping, as many do, for the next Uber, Instagram or AirBnB. Reform Ventures has had investments in DraftKings, Pinterest and SpaceX, among others. "We do it in early stage growth or late stage companies," says Young. "The same stuff people in Silicon Valley are doing. But I also have a real estate portfolio where we're invested in apartment complexes, condo buildings, hospitals, strip malls, single and multi-family housing. A lot of different things across the board."

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