Jeremy Wolf
I build companies, support founders, and think deeply at the intersection of sport, healthcare, and technology.
- Drafted 940th overall, New York Mets
- NCAA Division III Champions, Trinity University
- Team Israel, Tokyo Olympics
- Practice is the work. There is no separation between training and performance.
- Show up ready. Be early, stay present.
- Details are everything. Small things become big things.
- Cut the noise. Fewer meetings, less distraction, more focus on what matters.
- Done is better than perfect. Ship it, test it, learn from it, move forward.
- Do less, better. Usually, less actually is more.
- Stay consistent. Same energy, same focus, every day.
- Teach what you learn. Pass the playbook forward.
- Be a pro. Someone is always watching. Be kind, be yourself, always.
Jeremy Wolf is a former professional athlete and the founder of Open Athletes, a network for athletes, founders, and operators building what comes next in sport.
A graduate of Trinity University, he was a baseball standout who helped lead the Tigers to the 2016 NCAA Division III National Championship, was drafted by the New York Mets, and competed internationally on the road to the Tokyo Olympic Games. After a career-ending back injury he founded More Than Baseball, which helped establish the largest athlete union in professional sports. These days he mostly writes, builds, and backs the people working at the human side of sport and technology.
Today the work spans a portfolio of companies and nonprofits across sport, health, operations, AI, and craft — all built on one idea: bet on the person before the market does.
What I found on the other side was a system I could not stomach. Almost everyone in professional baseball is a minor leaguer, and almost none of them had any leverage — thousands of professional athletes on poverty wages with no collective voice. I founded More Than Baseball to put real support behind those players first. That groundwork helped make the Minor League Baseball Players Association possible: today the largest body of unionized athletes in professional sports.
Along the way we raised more than $2M for players and causes.
Now I build and back companies at the human side of sport and technology. Open Athletes is the network. Athletes Fund is the money. The list above is the rest of the work.
I try to back the person before the market does. I know what it is like to be the pick everyone overlooked.