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Bonus Episode: The Athletic’s Small Business Story | Part 2 of 3

The Athletic NBA Daily

The Athletic

Comedy, Unknown, Sports, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Part Two of The Athletic’s Origins story for Dell Technologies ‘Small Business Podference’ series. In this episode The Athletic’s co-founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann continue on about the company's first steps into the marketplace. The challenges they met selling this idea to investors, and journalists they were trying to recruit, specifically with the expansion into the Bay Area. Writers, Marcus Thompson and Anthony Slater give their thoughts on that process as well. For the complete lineup of episodes, visit delltechnologiespodference.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slack presents hands-free conversations.

0:03.1

Hello, car commuter, dog walker, stroller pusher.

0:06.7

Your hands are busy.

0:07.8

It's why we created Huddles in Slack,

0:09.7

because sometimes talking is easier than typing.

0:12.5

Huddled without the hassle.

0:14.1

In Slack.

0:15.8

We can look a journalist in the eyes

0:18.3

and tell them we're going to give them all the resources

0:21.0

they need to do the best work of their career.

0:23.2

In the same way that the early folks on that Bay Area staff said no,

0:27.2

originally, most of the investors that ultimately invested in the athletic

0:31.5

said no, and then we had to circle back.

0:33.8

Persistence in the face of rejection.

0:35.7

I mean, without that, you know, we would have stopped five years ago.

0:43.8

This year has been an incredibly challenging one.

0:48.2

For small businesses all across the country,

0:50.8

you have sent your data projected there about

0:53.0

Welcome back to episode two of Dell Technology's Small Business Conference series.

0:59.0

I am Jade Hoy, executive producer of the Athletic Podcast Network.

1:03.4

As you know, these have been trying times for small business owners

1:07.7

across the world.

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