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Dave Portnoy

21 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2024 by Dave Portnoy · said 21 times in 11 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Dave Portnoy, 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
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
Sep 17, 2024
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
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 negative
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
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
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
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
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 positive
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
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
Sep 17, 2024 positive
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
Sep 17, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Portnoy: DraftKings offered him stock when it only had four employees
“DraftKings, when there were four people, they offered me stock in the company.”
Dave Portnoy Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 13:07 Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
Oct 25, 2024
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
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