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Serena Williams has enjoyed a history-making career in tennis, but you can imagine she’s not done blazing a trail.
Williams’ retirement from tennis has not stopped the 23-time Grand Slam winner from running her investment empire.
Those smart investments could have seen Serena Williams make more money post-retirement than she did in her career.
In the year She founded Serena Ventures in 2017 looking to ‘write checks that drive change’.
To date, 79% of Serena Ventures has helped founders from demographics that are underrepresented among startups.
Williams quickly associated herself with some very successful projects, coming on board as a token investor before the company’s valuation increased.
She earned more than $350 million during her career.
She gave away 94.52 million dollars in prize money in the field of work where she stood out from the crowd.
Her career prize money is double that of any player on the WTA Tour.
Williams won her 23rd and final Grand Slam in 2017 while pregnant with daughter Olympia.
Although she would play four more Grand Slam finals, she lost matches at both Wimbledon and the US Open in 2018 and 2019 on her return to the sport.
Her 2017 Australian Open victory, when she defeated her sister Venus in the final of a major, made it eight times in ten meetings at that Grand Slam.
Serena Williams Net Worth
As of April 2023, Serena Williams has an estimated net worth of $270 million.
Serena Williams has been very active in public life since hanging up her racket, attending glitzy events with her husband Alex Ohanian.
The couple recently announced that Serena is pregnant with their second child.
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She still has lingering regrets about how her career ended.
Asked by Gayle King on CBS Morning, Williams replied: “That’s a great question, nobody has asked me yet. I wasn’t really happy just because of the result.
“I was there to keep going and keep winning, and it was more or less, I can’t believe I let that match go too far…
«Of course, it was a great moment and a great memory and I don’t think I left anything behind, but I felt what I could have done better that day.»
