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...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
...these former athletes and current athletes and, again, there's so many others who are just, taking advantage of their brand and star power Mhmm. But turning it into a successful
...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
Aside from all of the performance aspects that Ian just talked about, the protected and defensible moats, the long term recurring visible predictable revenue streams, the scarcity of the assets because the big five leagues, there's only a 150 of them
a year? A 130. 130. I mean, it's not as a whole another right. It's a whole another stratosphere. And also because, again, the cameras are rolling. The drama is not like, oh, who some petty thing. It's it's the tension between a player in the house w
And there is a, you know, kind of real estate component to it, in that there are limited number of NBA teams and a lot of billionaires out there with a lot of time, and a lot of ego. But here's what's really interesting, I think, going on in in sport
...wanna watch professional football played by this set of athletes,
That trend will continue, and sports will be on the leading edge of this transformation from our legacy media ecosystem to what comes next, which is likely a much more direct to consumer and streaming landscape. And that road will be a little bit bum
and, for the better. Mhmm. And I think that, we brought in fans that normally didn't watch baseball. Absolutely. And so, again, that's what can happen sometimes. When superstars play like superstars Yep. Ohtani performed well, Guerrero from their sid
They have a sophisticated institutional grade mentality on change and the value of change, but they also have lots of ordinary income. And the sports properties create a huge tax shield. They are not correlated with health care or tech or finance. Yo
maybe Wendy's franchisees in America. He employs, like, 11,000 people. It's incredible. Wow. He's worth $600,000,000. LeBron is worth $480,000,000. Shaq is worth $400,000,000 and is on the board of Papa John's, which is amazing. Had to put that in th
that these people were able to, a, generate during their playing days, but, b, also just have the influence and ability to Yeah. And invest and take those assets and build bigger empires with them. Yeah. So literally nobody else from any other major
The superstars in the NBA, like LeBron James, including sponsorships, makes a $127,000,000 a year. There is no one in the sport of football that comes close. There are three basketball and three soccer players at the top of the list before any footba
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