Recently receiving investment from the NBA, NHL, and Profluence Capital, John Stewart is transforming sports at Fastbreak AI. 

Fastbreak AI brings the power of world-class, sports scheduling optimization featuring a robust and intuitive user experience for league setup, defining scheduling goals, metric reporting, schedule modification, and distribution.

John Stewart sold his last company, MapAnything, to Salesforce in 2019. 

Chapters:

(00:40) Building & exiting MapAnything

(04:00) Opportunity John saw in sports

(07:00) Fastbreak AI scheduling 

(10:20) Downstream into youth sports

(12:00) Next products 

(15:30) Advice on fundraising

(17:40) Bootstrapping vs venture capital 

(20:40) Managing raised capital 

(22:50) Having mainly engineers

(25:15) Macro trends in sports to watch

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Fastbreak AI:

Website: https://fastbreak.ai/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-stewart-3528a38/

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Andrew Petcash:

🏠 Website: https://profluence.com

🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/

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