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This conversation was recorded in March 2025.

Andrew Phillips is a former college football player (Stanford, 2006-2010) and the VP of Partnerships at Fanstake.

Founded in 2024, Fanstake is the preeminent NIL team-building platform built by fans for fans to pledge money to recruit and retain athletes at their favorite colleges. Fanstake was founded by Greg Glass, Alex Boisvert, and Donnie Flood. The three were part of the founding and executive team of Bizo, an AdTech company that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014 for $175M. They have since held senior leadership positions at multiple Unicorn companies (Alex Boisvert - former CTO of Headspace), (Donnie Flood - former CTO of Guild). Fanstake is based out of San Francisco.

For more information, go to www.fanstake.com.

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