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Los Angeles Times
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Kevin Baxter

Why Angel City's Alexis Ohanian, other investors bet on women's soccer

LOS ANGELES — Alexis Ohanian has made millions by investing in people and ideas that others overlooked or undervalued. Three dozen times, he says, he wrote the first check for a start-up that went on to become a billion-dollar company.

But the decision to invest in Angel City, the start-up women's soccer club that makes its NWSL debut Friday, was perhaps the biggest no-brainer of his career.

"Ten or 15 years from now, when people look at Angel City FC, I think they'll actually see this one as being the most obvious," he said.

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