Dave Portnoy

Everything Dave Portnoy said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

ALL-IN Opinion

Portnoy: Investment bank Moelis & Company 'absolutely suck'

“We hired molus, which is like a banking. Yeah, they suck. They absolutely suck.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 13:20 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Dave Portnoy says he will vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election

“I'll vote for Trump in the presidency because I want the country to get along.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 26:38 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Opinion

Portnoy: Democrats bypassing 2024 primary is worse than anything Trump did

“I think that what the Democrats have done is far worse than really anything Trump has done, like, in terms of not allowing a primary.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 27:14 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Opinion

Portnoy: Angel Reese owes her mainstream recognition to Caitlin Clark rivalry

“People would not, the majority of people would not know who she was if it wasn't for her going at Caitlin Clark and becoming her rival by really trash talking her,”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 51:25 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Portnoy: Business Insider sexual misconduct allegations against him were garbage

“The heavy accusations, like Business Insider, when, like, sexual misconduct type stuff, like, all garbage”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 57:23 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Portnoy says ESPN refused to hire Pat McAfee before Barstool signed him

“McAfee came on and he knew he wanted to get into media. I think he wanted to work at ESPN. They wouldn't hire him. We did, and obviously the rest of the history with him.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 9:37 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Portnoy: Penn completed the ESPN partnership without his involvement

“They did the ESPN deal without, without me being involved.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 18:16 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

TBPN Disclosure

Barstool Sports partners with Netflix for exclusive video podcasts next year

“If you haven't heard the news, I'm proud to announce that Barstool is partnered with Netflix for three of our top podcasts. Exclusive video only on Netflix starting next year.”

Dave Portnoy Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 27:15 Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction

ALL-IN Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Portnoy: Chernin acquired 51% of Barstool at a $12.5M valuation

“So they, yeah, they valued the company at I think 12 and a half million wildly. I didn't know what I was doing. They really, that was too low, but whatever. That's what they valued it for. I think I got about, if I recall, three and a half million went to me p…”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 3:28 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Portnoy: Barstool rejects traditional media talent coaching as obsolete

“We don't do any of that. I would say all those people, anybody who tried to do what you just described, Subscribed would not fit with us, and I'd say is a dinosaur.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 11:40 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Opinion

Portnoy: Legacy network talent usually requires constant hand-holding

“Like, again, the people we've hired from networks, the talent, it's like they need their hand held for the most part.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 11:47 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Portnoy: Core beliefs align more with left, but hate comes from left

“My core beliefs generally tend, and people who follow me for a long time know this, tend to line up with the left more than it does with the right, but the hate I get comes from the left, not the right.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 19:34 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Dave Portnoy says he would have voted for Nikki Haley in the primaries

“I said during the primaries, I would have voted for Nikki Haley.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 26:33 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Portnoy: $200K salary is barely enough to live in Manhattan

“For a young person, you know, you could pay him 200 grand a year, and that is barely enough for someone to live in Manhattan.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 29:27 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Insight

Portnoy: Developing digital talent inherently leads to agent negotiations and departures

“It's the talent business where inherently we're trying to find new stars, build them up just so they can turn around, hire an agent, negotiate us. And then leave.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 38:11 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Opinion

Portnoy: Nike's Caitlin Clark deal is biggest steal in sports marketing history

“I said when Nike did the deal with her, I thought it was the most, the biggest steal, like, in the history of sports marketing.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 54:20 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN What-if

Portnoy: Barstool could have easily inflated gross revenue before 2016 sale

“If I had a year to build up for that sale and I just wanted to inflate our gross revenue, I could have done that easily.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 6:12 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Portnoy: Barstool surpassed its 5-year $50M valuation target in six months

“The original business plan said in five years, they wanted to sell it for like fifty million. That was the original business plan, and we got past that in like six months.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 8:10 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Insight

Portnoy: Barstool approaches media talent discovery like a record label

“No idea what would become with her podcast, but we were willing to take chances almost like a band label type model. It's like you hire this talent and you hope they hit. There's a lot of misses we have.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 10:06 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Dave Portnoy says he took zero vacation days for 10 years building Barstool

“Built Barcelona, didn't take a vacation day for 10 years.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 36:59 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Portnoy: One Bite Pizza was the largest frozen lunch launch in Walmart history

“Now I did a one, excuse me, a one bite frozen pizza. It was the biggest frozen lunch Walmart ever had.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 39:14 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Portnoy: Gambling bets are made with personal funds, not sponsor money

“No, it's my own money.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 47:37 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Insight

Portnoy: Creators on third-party platforms are far easier to de-platform

“If you're on someone else's platform, it's a lot easier to de-platform them because you have advertisers and somebody above who don't want to deal with the headache or anything like that”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 56:30 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

ALL-IN Disclosure

Portnoy: Barstool Sports will focus on breaking even, not aggressive growth

“I want Barstool to be a place where we break even or make money.”

Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 59:52 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview

Show 6statements(6 left)

The other half of the tape: Dave Portnoy's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 26 times in 14 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most David Sacks 10Jason Calacanis 4David Friedberg 3Kyle Samani 1John Coogan 1

Statements about Dave Portnoy, by other people (1)

ALL-IN Assertion Supported

Friedberg: Barstool Sports rejected Kamala Harris interview requests

“So Portnoy claims that the comp, that the Harris campaign reached reached out and asked to be on two or three of their shows, and Barstool declined having her on”

David Friedberg Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 1:17:58 Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dave's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
ALL-INLEDGER	Founder and Owner, Barstool Sports	1	29	100% 2/2	full record on All-In →
TBPNLEDGER	Founder and Owner, Barstool Sports	0 +1	1	—	full record on TBPN →