X Games

9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Sahil Bloom · said 61 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Bloom plans to form DAO to buy the X Games
“I want to create a DAO. You read my mind. I want to create a DAO to buy the X Games. You buy all the IP of the X Games and basically completely reimagine the X Games for a Web three and crypto enabled world.”
Sahil Bloom Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 27:25 Buying the X Games with Olympic Icon Apolo Ohno | Where It Happens
Dec 10, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Bloom: ESPN dropped X Games asking price to $50M
“Last year, they basically tried, publicly said they were trying to sell it, and so initially, they said it would cost a hundred million dollars to buy it, No one wanted it. They came down and they basically said they would take a fifty million dollar offer for…”
Sahil Bloom Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 27:11 Buying the X Games with Olympic Icon Apolo Ohno | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
Extreme Sports Lacks Mainstream Cultural Icons Like Tony Hawk
“There has not been a really big face or name around extreme sports in a long time in the way that there used to be. When we were growing up, the Tony Hawk, the Sean White, they were like cultural icons, and you can go and recreate that by doing something uniqu…”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 19:38 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
ESPN Focused X Games on Stunts Instead of Athlete Personalities
“I think Disney and ESPN have focused so much on the, like, Bigger, faster, higher, stronger of the X games rather than on the personalities and the people and creating a face to it.”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 20:18 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
A Full DAO Buyout of the X Games Is Not Viable
“In a, you know, fully Dow approach, you raise fifty million dollars or a hundred million dollars, whatever the number is, and you go and just buy the entirety of the X Games. Why do I think that's challenging here? As much as I love that as a cultural moment f…”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 7:44 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Bloom Pitched a Web3 DAO Plan to Buy the X Games
“So I pitched an idea, basically, to web three-ify the X Games, to go and acquire it, form a DAO to go and buy the X Games and then completely reimagine it, both in a web two sense with more traditional media, cultural moments creating the, like, drive to survi…”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 1:35 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Red Bull and Monster Reached Out to Bloom About the X Games
“I'm getting messages from Red Bull, Rockstar, Monster Energy all these big agencies, huge investor groups reaching out with interest.”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 1:04 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Winning the X Games Only Pays Athletes $25,000 to $30,000
“Like the prize winnings right now are like 25 grand, 30 grand someone wins if they win the X Games.”
Sahil Bloom Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 22:23 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Opinion
ESPN Broadcast Exposure No Longer Attracts X Games Athletes
“Hey, you should come compete in the X Games versus other action sports competitions because we're on ESPN. That doesn't work anymore.”
Sam Schwartzstein Dec 14, 2021 ▶ 24:34 State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
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