Sports

“I mean, maybe for the referees, like you've seen in tennis, but that's it.”

“In today's world, actually having played sports is an advantage or done anything where there's objective outcomes. For a lot of children, they've lived in a world of participation trophies and great inflation. They haven't been confronted with losing, with an …”

“But the price of sports, for the end user, Is going to be more. Therefore then the price of, there's going to be tiers at Netflix, you know, with the sports bet, which the sports tier you pay, you know, they're going to have to make a decision.”

“Real one knows that the shuttlecock is the fastest moving object that's been recorded in sports.”

“I think the business arena is, is arguably the most competitive field in which you can test yourself of any field, even more than sports, academia.”

“The future of Hollywood, the entertainment industry, the music industry is going to be largely AI generated or assisted. The appointment television, aside from live, you know, breaking tech and business news sport is like guaranteed. And the celebrity of being…”

“I think that the best answer in my opinion is sport. Not everyone loves sports, but the thing about sports is someone wins and someone loses every single time. And it doesn't matter where you started. It doesn't matter you know, where you woke up this morning …”

“I think across sports, like, more and more of, like, refereeing will become automated and I just look as far as, like, tech goes in sports, like, if you look at baseball, they're, you know, instituting more tech as far as, like, the umpires.”

“In the world, like there isn't anything like hotel tonight or open table for sports that doesn't exist anywhere in the world, really.”

“The thing where the sports analogy in business often falls down is I find in business, the problems usually are really ambiguous and figuring out what the problem is, is actually a big part of the problem. And, you know, in sports, it's very simple. It's like,…”

“People always talk about, you know, hacks and quick wins, and how can you shorten the timeline? And ultimately, I think that leads to maybe a quick win here and there, but not longevity. And in business and in sport, The careers are built on longevity and that…”

“Certain, you can use certain things, but nothing at least in sport guarantees better performance or success. It's not that you do this and your success rate is going to go up. There is no formula like that.”

“No, no, no. That has no, like, at least in sport. ... Nothing. Zero. Zero. ... You can be all of those things, and if you're scoring, scoring hundreds every game, there's nobody to stop you from being picked, and yeah.”

“I am very long in this age of AI on sports, obviously, because I, that's the one pillar of entertainment that is not going to be upended. Like, we will never want to see robots playing football.”

“Sports, sports will be the one last place for traditional entertainment where you are guaranteed to feel the humanity. No one will want to watch robots play basketball.”

“That's the problem with sports. The whole world revolved around me when I was in sports. And the minute I actually pulled up and was like, no, no, it's not about me. It's about others.”

“Biggest thing for me, there's no gray area. Always like knowing at the end of the day, there's a winner, there's a loser. Hopefully on the right side of this, you know, of the outcome more than the wrong side, but to me there's no gray area at the end of the d…”

“Being the best at your sport, whether it's teammates you come in contact with, people you grow up playing with, when you get to that certain level, it's all, you're thinking about, okay, what am I willing to sacrifice?”

“I think one of the most transformative things for sports isn't necessarily new technology, but it's social media. And social media has given teams and athletes a microphone to be able to be their, you know, their selves and their brands, and to be able to reac…”

“So what that looks like today at Iraq Corp, we do two things. We do sports and we do real estate, right?”

“Business is cool, but like, God, sports and music just have this special thing, this special moment, these special feelings that you can't, there's nobody is that passionate about our podcast. Nobody is that passionate about this piece of software.”

“More people are actually probably getting hurt playing sports now because they're, there's a lack of impact.”

“Luck in some ways is, is really anathema to sports, right? We work hard and we game plan and we strategize and we compete and we sweat. We don't want to think that this is just in the hands of fate or coin flip. I mean, in some ways, luck is very much at odds …”

“And so a lot of times in sports, you end up with decisions being made that actually don't maximize your chances of winning. But what they maximize is your chance of keeping a job.”

“I think loss aversion and omission bias are two things that in investing and also in sports have us making some really suboptimal choices, but like shooting overhand free throws, at least we're on the right side of convention.”

“Sports and concerts are the only things left that you can only experience them live.”

“Video, you know, TV is going to move to the mobile phone. HBO has already gone unbundled. Sports is going to go unbundled.”

“I see my theory about this is that you really can't invent a sport. You can invent games, and sometimes games can evolve into sports.”

“The long run for TV, for example, the long run is likely that there's The traditional bundle becomes basically all about sports because sports is better live. Sports is, is, Is advertising driven. And so the business model on that side is going to be differen…”

“The biggest problem with live and the broadcast media industry today is seeing is to drive tune in outside of sports is extremely hard.”