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Why Velocity Capital Management refuses to invest directly in sports teams
“And we decided definitively we were not going to be investing in sports teams.”
Velocity Capital Management invested in carving out the X Games from Disney
“Ultimately after a lot of stop and start negotiations and a long year-long discussion, it was carved out of Disney and the transaction closed in October, and given Arnie's historical knowledge of it and relationship, we invested in it in Velocity.”
The X Games historically generated zero game-day ticketing or hospitality revenue
“Historically just given the size of it for the game day events, whether it's the winter games in Aspen or summer games elsewhere, there were no game day revenues. So think of going to a baseball game where all the tickets are free and there's no hospitality an…”