a16z Podcast: When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide

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🗓️ 12 November 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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With 15 million fantasy football players angling for the win in thousands of fantasy leagues, ESPN joined Tilt.com for a discussion about how crowdfunding provides a platform for an obsessed community. --- The views expressed here are those of the ...

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0:00.0	The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business tax or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund.
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0:18.7	So I'm Michael Copeland. I'm with Andrewson Horowitz, and we are lucky today to have James
0:24.1	Bashara, founder and CEO of Tilt, and Ryan Spoon, SVP digital product of a network we all love, ESPN.
0:32.8	So, and we have one fan.
0:35.3	Ryan, we're going to get to a fan of it.
0:37.2	Ryan has been a startup entrepreneur, started and sold a company,
0:43.0	worked at eBay, been a venture capitalist.
0:45.9	You've been busy.
0:46.6	We're going to talk a little bit about fantasy football.
0:48.8	So that derelict pastime of some people I know.
0:53.2	Anyone here play fantasy football?
0:55.0	Raise your hand.
0:56.0	On ESPN, I'm guessing, hopefully.
0:59.0	Okay.
1:00.0	So we're going to get into that.
1:03.0	It might seem, at first blush, this is sort of an odd pairing.
1:07.0	ESPN, big sports network, Tilt.
1:10.0	You guys are a platform for crowdfunding, and yet you guys
1:14.1	managed to pull off a project together. So I want you guys to just start about how did that
1:20.5	project come together, what was it, and we'll get into the details of how it worked. So,
1:24.9	Ryan, how did you make this man's acquaintance?
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