From zero funding to employee number one: Building a sports league

He recruits you to come aboard. When you came in, what were you inheriting? I was employee number one. Oh. So I had a set of bylaws

and a board. And at that point, it was just the World Cup. And did you have a budget? Did you have funding? We had no funding at that point in time. And but what we asked the teams was that they would provide our first set of seed funding, and all of them stepped up. So we are super excited. Did you raise in that? About a million dollars, so not a lot Yep. Just to kinda get me going. And from that funding source, we had to try to scale and do all the things early on in a business. Right? Find office space,