Zach Wiener

Co-founder and President, Overtime · 1 appearance on the record.

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Zack Weiner co-founded Overtime alongside Dan Porter in 2016, building a digital-first sports network and social media brand. He helped scale the company from viral youth sports highlights to launching leagues including Overtime Elite, OT7, and Overtime Select.

10statements → 5claims → 1claims resolved → 3.7/5average certainty → 2.3/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Zach argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up

Wiener: High school star Mac McClung will reach the NBA despite skeptics

“I would say that most of the basketball population does not believe he's going to go to the NBA. I do, because I'm a supporter.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:43 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

How they sound: speaking style how? →

275 words/min while actually speaking · 0 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Zach Wiener: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,087 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Zach Wiener is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

What they said10 Episodes1

Everything Zach Wiener said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Wiener: iPhone sports footage outperforms professional camera clips on Instagram

“There are some plays that we have that are shot both with an iPhone and a real camera, and we've tested this on Instagram, and it actually performs better when you shoot it with an iPhone.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:22 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Opinion

Zach Wiener: Declining sports TV viewership is not predetermined

“I don't think that it's predetermined that viewership will go down, and there are some stats that point the other way. The NFL, this past weekend, viewership was up compared to last year, so I don't think there is a 100% chance that viewership continues to go …”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:23 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Opinion

Wiener: Simply streaming linear TV sports feeds on Facebook fails

“MLB, their idea of broadcasting baseball games with Facebook was to just put the broadcasting And put it on Facebook. And I don't think that that works. Like the people that are on Facebook, they know that the game is on TV. They're just not turning it on. So …”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:33 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Disclosure

Wiener: Overtime chooses coverage based on athlete authenticity, not skill

“The social cachet that these guys have, that's actually how we decide who we want to cover, not necessarily by who's the best, it's who's the most interesting and authentic to this audience.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:52 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Prediction Held up

Wiener: High school star Mac McClung will reach the NBA despite skeptics

“I would say that most of the basketball population does not believe he's going to go to the NBA. I do, because I'm a supporter.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:43 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Zach Wiener: Traditional live broadcasts are failing to engage Gen Z

“It's clear that the live broadcast is not working for the younger generation. And probably Gen Z even less than millennials.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:39 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Insight

Wiener: New Sports Fans Care Most About Off-Field Culture

“For new fans, it's about the culture around the game. They want to see what guys are wearing leading up to it. What are the fans thinking? So, I think it comes down to engagement and gamification and making it feel digital first.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:04 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Wiener: Youth sports fandom is driven by individual athletes over traditional teams

“I think more than ever, it's personality-driven content. I mean, if you ask a kid what team they root for, I would say most kids in America right now say the Lakers, because they're really a LeBron fan.”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:48 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Wiener: Overtime lost YouTube viewers due to 10-second intro title cards

“We noticed that about 10 seconds into our videos, we were normally losing a little bit more than we should. Like, you know, it's a downward-sloping curve because, of course, less people are watching five minutes in than one minute in. Natural taper. Exactly. B…”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:58 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Disclosure

Overtime developed Flashback technology to capture and buffer 12-second sports highlights

“The problem with highlights is you never know when the good play is going to happen. So we built a technology we call flashback where the game is streaming through memory the whole time. It's not saving it because we don't live stream games, but when something…”

Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:59 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Eyeballs on the Game	Jan 2, 2019	8m

Zach Wiener

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