Dana White

“Esports needs its Dana white. It needs its person. Who's going to take this sport from like just the underground and brick by brick, build it into a mainstream brand and like take no prisoners and like organize the whole fucking thing along the way.”

“So I was thinking somebody could probably build a high end version of this niche business, which is basically virtual shooting ranges. So you have a, either a screen, like a green screen or like a plasma, like a big flat screen TV. And then you give them like …”

“From the moment the news came out that I was signing, he was trying to get me to not even have day one at ESPN.”

“They bought the UFC for about two million dollars, and it wasn't his money. He convinced his two kind of childhood friends, the Fertittas, who own casinos, that's their background, that's how they made their wealth, convinced them, let's buy the UFC, and then …”

“I do think it's a, I do think it's going to work for that reason.”

“I think Dana only owned, like, four or six percent of it when it sold, but the Fertitta brothers owned most all of it besides some outside, outside money”

“I think it won't impact the business at all. I think it's actually going to make the business better because the people who are behind them are going to be harder behind them, and I think, but I do think it will scare institutional money and that's basically m…”

“As silly as this sounds, I do think that Dana White is on my Mount Rushmore of startup founders.”

“They went forty million dollars in the hole before turning this thing around, turning it into a ten billion dollar company.”