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Paul Rabil

Co-Founder and President, Premier Lacrosse League · 1 appearance on the record.

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Rabil is a former professional lacrosse player who co-founded the Premier Lacrosse League in 2018. He also co-founded Rabil Ventures, authored The Way of the Champion, and hosted the Suiting Up podcast.

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7 assertions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Paul 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

Assertion Supported
Rabil: Founders Leveraged Private Equity Backing to Attempt MLL Buyout
“So about six months later, we went back to MLL with overhead capital that we had acquired at the time as primarily private equity, and we proposed a number of different scenarios of essentially buying them or rolling them up and keeping them involved from an e…”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 24:03 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Paul Rabil on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Paul Rabil said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Gives Stock Options to Its Players
“What you have in Silicon Valley is the treatment of your employees Where they get stock options of the business and that's carved out in your employee cap table. So we carved out a portion of that for our players. And so our players have options in the busines…”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 39:11 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Insight
Rabil: Athlete Angel Investors Offer Startups Immediate Customer Acquisition Channels
“That's why athletes are now really valuable for early stage startups as small investors that can, if you're the entrepreneur and you carve it out well, get access to their audience. It's like immediate customer acquisition.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 19:17 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Supported
Rabil: Founders Leveraged Private Equity Backing to Attempt MLL Buyout
“So about six months later, we went back to MLL with overhead capital that we had acquired at the time as primarily private equity, and we proposed a number of different scenarios of essentially buying them or rolling them up and keeping them involved from an e…”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 24:03 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Partly supported
Rabil: Athlete Social Followings Are Up to Eight Times Larger Than Teams
“That athletes following are four, sometimes eight to one the size of their teams and league.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 26:10 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabil: Less Than Five Percent of Sports Fans Attend Games in Person
“Less than five percent of sports fans actually go to games.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 28:40 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Supported
Rabil: Lacrosse Is North America's Fastest-Growing Youth Team Sport
“It's the fastest growing team sport in North America at the youth level over the last 15 years.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 30:08 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Supported
Rabil: MLL Paid Rookie Players Just $6,000 for the Entire 2008 Season
“A low wage, which at the time for rookies was 6000 dollars for the whole season.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 12:47 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Insight
Rabil: Unstaffed 24-Hour Gyms Generate Strong Cash Flow at 250 Members
“There didn't need to be an attendee there. They had this 24 hour security system that kicked back to HQ, so that's why I was really lean, and we could operate these things and If you get them up to 250 to 500 members, they spit out cash”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 16:25 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Supported
Rabil: Funding Circle Acquired Endurance Lending Network During Its Series A
“We started endurance lending network. So he shifted his time full time there that got acquired by funding circle. When we were out for our series a that turned into funding circle us”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 17:06 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Disclosure
Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Raised Seed VC to Secure Media Rights
“We shifted quickly from private equity to venture because this was certainly a venture investment. So we raised a small seed round, and the goal of that was to allow us to anchor a network deal Secure venues, get first leads in on sponsors, sign up players, hi…”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 32:40 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
Assertion Supported
Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Is Backed by Joe Tsai, Chernin, CAA
“Venture backed from folks like Josai and Josai Sports, Rain Ventures, CAA, Chernin, Blum. We have an individual who's one of the most successful hedge fund operators in Brett Jefferson.”
Paul Rabil Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 38:46 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)

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Appearances (1)

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Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95) Apr 15, 2019 47m
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