October 02, 2020

#191: Tom Pardikes, Co-Founder & CEO of GameSense Sports, Developers of Technology that Tests and Trains the Fast In-Game Decisions of Athletes

53 minutes

Tom is the CEO and Co-founder of GameSense Sports. For the past decade, Tom has been designing and building sports-related technologies. He helped build several sport technology companies serving as Director of Product Development for Cyton8 Sports and NeuroSport Performance. He was Director of Sports Science and Performance at Elite Sports Services as well. He has helped develop multiple devices and software designed to test and train high-speed decision-making, situational decision-making, attention and autonomic control. Tom played college football at Humboldt State University. Following college, Tom was invited to play and later coach in the European football leagues. When Tom isn’t chasing around a very active 3-year old he enjoys playing music, gardening, biking, hiking and snowboarding.

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Some of the Topics Covered by Tom Pardikes in this Episode

What GameSense is and how it got started
How Tom started working with professional sports teams
What the MVP for GameSense Sports looked like
How Tom financed the company initially
Why Tom decided to go through the Techstars accelerator with GameSense Sports and the traction they had prior to applying
The business model behind GameSense Sports
How Tom is going about educating potential customers for his product
The importance of creating a unique metric for GameSense Sports
Building trust with customers
How Tom looks at expanding into other sports besides baseball and softball
The factors Tom is considering when deciding which markets to expand into
The biggest challenge of being a first-time founder
Impactful books for Tom
How Tom recharges away from work

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