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between how I think about ServiceTitan and how I think about, for example, football. I want to achieve extraordinary things. I want to make an extraordinary impact, both in at ServiceTitan, as well as when I play football or when I coach my kids' foo
...for athletes. Was that was that the original idea?
athletes weren't able to monetize their own name, image, image, likeness. So the colleges would do it, or their conferences would do it. In the Olympic movement, the national governing bodies would do it. So USA swimming, USA Track And Field, or the
...these athletes need to have that same mindset and need to be able to have a culture that supports it, a culture that lives its values. And it's like any other type of business. Can I ask the question then of, like, the sale or like acquisition
...sports athlete, especially if you're looking to find someone with outlier potential, outlier behavior. Talk a bit about that. Is that true? I think sports at a high level requires a lot of discipline, and I think you need a lot of discipline to build
...athletes, even more than teams, will be the heroes.
...and for athletes to make money. And so I'd spent a lot of time with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and I they're some of the most amazing people, amazing human beings. You know, they give up so much to represent their country, but what I think we d
...The athletes find their way to it either through a brand deal nowadays or in the early days, you know, through their local running shop who has something cool and exclusive. You build brand with that niche athletic community by being obsessed with th
...the best athletes in the world shows us the ceiling of human performance. And so when the four minute mile was broken by Roger Bannister about fifty years ago, this was a major human achievement because we had thought that breaking a four minute mile
...impact your approach to growing companies first? Yeah. I mean, gymnastics influenced me in in every way. I'm incredibly fortunate that I found it. I'm not a large human, and so I probably would have been pretty mediocre at almost any other sport. But
And so I go to try and make the Olympics in in 2004. I finally get to the trials, and and I'm, you know, an underdog to make the team. But on day one, I have, like, the competition of my life. I did high school in in Northern Virginia, and so the Was
...did athletes end up as angel investors? And there's a very common, maybe miss misconception, which is they throw money at stuff they like the look of. There's a clear evolution of the the athlete or the celebrity investor, if you will. You get the ea
...about entrepreneurship, that's sort of the lens that I always saw the world through, which is there's always gonna be barriers. There's always gonna be challenges ahead of you. You know? But I saw so many examples of people prospering despite that ad
...advise our athletes, it's a dual risk. One of the key trends which we're touching on is that you're now seeing such as the amplification of sport, we're now seeing sport as somewhat of a luxury good. I think the stat is that the price of live sport h
start having what I would say is the water from the open ocean flood into their aquarium. There's a culture shift. Shift. What I mean by that? You know, when you have teams that have been inherited over multiple generations, when you have sports that
as a student athlete. Yeah. I mean, you spend three or four hours a day training, and I was just kind of burning it on all ends. So you know, you work out really hard, you stay up late working or studying. And from what I understand, you're good. I m
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