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Retired NFL Player Turned Failed Money Manager Self-Conscious About His Investing Skills

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“It worked for nine years, but mistakes were made,” Harris Barton, 46, says as he sips a coffee at an Italian restaurant in Palo Alto, California. After the demise of HRJ Capital, the firm he co-founded with Ronnie Lott of which Joe Montana was a partner, he says he was embarrassed every time he walked into a place like this in Silicon Valley. “I felt like everyone was looking at me and saying, ‘There he is, the dumb athlete who couldn’t manage his firm.’” [Bloomberg]

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