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Game Theory Podcast

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

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7766 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Part Three 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 expansion into the U.K., how the team got through the shutdown of sports and challenges that lay ahead. Writers, Marcus Thompson, Anthony Slater, Zach Harper and David Aldridge give their thoughts on that process as well. For the complete lineup of episodes, visit delltechnologiespodference.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?

0:07.3

Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.

0:13.8

Silly bookers?

0:14.8

Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.

0:17.1

Stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.

0:22.2

Conditions apply.

0:25.6

Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people,

0:26.4

Atoll protected.

0:32.7

What we're offering is something really different.

0:36.2

And I think that really is liberating for our writers to allow them to kind of emerge and go by what they see.

0:42.6

Trust your eyes. What are your eyes telling you? Would you look at a game? What are you seeing?

0:47.4

Trust them. And you can write stories off of that. It takes a while, but they start to trust their

0:52.3

eyes. And they start to trust what they think is happening, you know?

0:56.4

And that makes all the difference in the world.

0:59.3

And they can speak authoritatively about the team they cover.

1:04.1

About the team they cover because they're no.

1:07.4

Welcome to the final episode of Dell Technologies Small Business Podfront series.

1:13.7

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

1:17.9

For the second year in a row, Dell Technologies has brought together the best podcasters in the industry

1:23.2

to share stories, anecdotes of inspiration, and advice on how to traverse these unsettling times in the small business world.

1:32.8

In episodes one and two, the athletics co-founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansman brought us through the birth and development of a simple idea which was to serve sports fans with exceptional journalism in a wide variety of

1:45.7

sports that other outlets were increasingly unwilling to support.

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