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Barstool Sports

15 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2024 by Dave Portnoy · said 38 times in 8 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Dave Portnoy (16), Jason Calacanis (11), Chamath Palihapitiya (6), David Friedberg (4), Samir Chaudry (1)

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Everything said about Barstool Sports, oldest first

Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Portnoy gave 10% to 12% of Barstool equity to early employees
“For the most part, yes, I had given away 10 to 12% of the company to my long-term employees.”
Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 3:14 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
Sep 17, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024 negative
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
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
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
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
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
Sep 17, 2024 positive
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
Sep 17, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024
Disclosure
Portnoy: Barstool is taking equity stakes in partner brands over ad fees
“So we're doing a lot more deals now, how you just suggested.”
Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 41:18 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
Sep 17, 2024 negative
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
Sep 17, 2024
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Portnoy says he will never become a billionaire off Barstool
“I'm never gonna become like a billionaire off parcel unless someone pays it.”
Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 1:00:09 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
Sep 17, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Portnoy states Barstool Sports was losing money under Penn ownership
“The company was losing money.”
Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 33:27 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
Sep 17, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024 negative
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
Sep 17, 2024 negative
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
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