5 Years at Barstool Sports

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Erika celebrates her 5 year anniversary at Barstool Sports. She breaks down how she landed the job, the early days of Barstool Sports, and lessons she's learned along the way as CEO. Erika then answers questions from listeners and a surprise video from Barstool employees closes out the episode. (00:01:47) - How Erika Got To Barstool Sports (00:06:43) - Lessons on Getting To Barstool Sports (00:09:00) - The Early Days (00:21:26) - Lessons Learned From Being CEO (00:26:18) - Answering Questions From Fans (00:30:38) - Surprise Barstool Employees Video

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0:00.0	Hey, token CEO listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
0:06.9	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:10.9	We have the best people here on the planet. Go Barstle Sports.
0:14.4	It's Tuesday, July 19th. This is episode 170 of the token CEO podcast. We are presented by sports research.
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1:00.0	All right, so this is the five-year anniversary episode. I have been at Barstle Sports for five years.
1:06.0	We announced that I joined July 2016. Secretly, I had been working here for like five months.
1:13.4	I don't think I was getting paid, but that really didn't matter because I loved it.
1:16.8	It's been a whirlwind. I really don't have the words for five years at this company.
1:22.3	I was just on the phone with a bunch of LA guys who are working on the yet-to-be-titled Dave
1:29.4	Portnoy Creative Project. We were doing stories from 2016 and 2017 and the early days of Barstle and
1:37.1	what it was like. It just makes me put my head in my hands because it's been so much. I always say
1:43.9	this. I've never loved a job the way I love this one. I've never loved a group of people. The way
1:48.8	I love these people and I've never loved building something or felt so inspired and honored to be
1:55.6	part of something as I have about Barstle Sports. We're going to take this in a couple different
2:00.0	chapters. One is the getting to Barstle Sports, the early days of Barstle Sports, and we'll do things
2:06.2	I've learned from Barstle Sports. How I got here. I was part of a music startup. I had been the
2:12.5	CMO of AOL. I had realized for myself in 2014, 2015 that I didn't want to be a CMO anymore. It was
2:22.1	what I thought my entire career was all I thought I wanted. One big lesson in that is sometimes when
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