Today's episode is with Renee Montgomery, a former WNBA player and current vice president & part-owner of the Atlanta Dream.

We discuss:

• Winning a national championship at UCONN

• Investing in the WNBA team she played for

• Growing women's basketball in the US

• Building a media & investing business

Enjoy!

Chris Long was the 2nd overall pick in the 2008 NFL, won two Super Bowls with the New England Patriots & Philadelphia Eagles, launched a media business upon retirement, and is one of the most active philanthropists in sports today.

We discuss:

• Life in the NFL

• Winning two Super Bowls

• Building a media business

• Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

• And more

Enjoy!

Today's episode is with Gary Vaynerchuk.

Gary is a world-class entrepreneur & operator. He's an investor in several multi-billion-dollar businesses. He's an author, speaker, and collector. And most recently, he's the creator of the popular NFT project Veefriends.

We discuss:

• When Gary first heard about crypto & NFTs

• How he plans to grow the IP for VeeFriends

• His biggest financial wins & losses

• The future of the digital economy

• And more

This was a fantastic conversation. Enjoy!

This episode is with Sohrob Farudi.

Sohrob is the founder & CEO of Fan Controlled Sports & Entertainment, an innovative new company that combines IRL professional sports with Web3 attributes like NFTs, blockchain gaming, community ownership, and more.

They recently raised $40 million from some of the best investors globally, and Sohrob broke down the entire business model for me.

We discuss:

• Fan controlled football's founding story

• What role they play in Web3

• Using NFTs for team & league governance

• Onboarding people to crypto

• The future of play-to-earn gaming

• Tokenomics in sports

Enjoy!

Today's episode is with TJ Adeshola, the Head of Sports at Twitter.

We discuss:

• Creative ways to get a job in sports

• The growth of Twitter spaces

• How Twitter partners with leagues & teams

• The athletes that utilize social media the best

Enjoy!

Will Ahmed is the founder & CEO of WHOOP, a human performance company that collects and provides physiological data 24/7 to optimize how you train, recover, and sleep.

WHOOP was founded in 2011, they have raised about $400 million, and the business is currently valued at roughly $4 billion.

We discuss:

• Whoop's founding story

• The tradeoffs between distribution vs. product

• Working with LeBron James & Michael Phelps

• The biggest takeaway's from WHOOP's data

• Transitioning to a subscription model

• The benefits of meditation

Enjoy!

Today's episode is with Ricky Wysocki, a 2x disc golf World Champion.

We discuss:

• The business behind pro disc golf

• How much the top players are making

• Ricky's 4-year, $4 million deal

• Being paid $250,000 in bitcoin

• And more

Enjoy!

Today's episode is with Rachel Luba, the founder of Luba Sports & the youngest female agent in baseball history.

We discuss:

• How to become an agent

• What role data plays in negotiations

• Trevor Bauer's $100 million deal

• The role of social media

• and more

Enjoy!

Nigel Eccles is the former co-founder & CEO at FanDuel and has spent the last few years building multiple businesses that uniquely straddle the creator economy, sports betting, web3, crypto, and more.

We discuss:

• Raising $450 million in venture capital

• Finding product-market fit at FanDuel

• Ethereum vs. Solana

• The future of DAOs

• Regulation in crypto

• Lessons from 20 years of entrepreneurship

Enjoy!

This episode of The Joe Pomp Show is with Buster Scher, the founder of Hoops Nation.

Buster has a fantastic story — he started posting NBA content on Facebook when he was 14 years old and has spent the last seven years building a sports media company with nearly 10 million followers.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Building a large media company

• Why Mark Cuban is buying Meme accounts

• How he monetizes social media content

• The reason he decided to skip college

• Investing in historical collectibles

• and more

Enjoy!