Dan Porter, CEO of Overtime on The Secrets to Disrupting an Industry

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Dan Porter, Co-founder and CEO of Overtime, shares his insights on: [2:36] - His three best pieces of advice for young entrepreneurs [5:56] - The challenge of delivering a pitch for a “big idea” and how to use storytelling as a solution [10:57] - Why making a big pivot isn’t always the best option for a company [14:38] - What led to the launch of OT7, Overtime’s new 7-on-7 football league Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have one of the legends, uh, the CEO and co-founder of OverTime. He's been around the game
0:05.9	a long time doing things at the highest level, Dan Porter. Welcome to the playbook.
0:12.1	Thanks for having me. You know, it's so interesting because so many people want to work in sports.
0:18.1	And obviously working in sports like saying I want to work in oxygen, you know, it's not an
0:24.4	industry or even a career anymore. Uh, it's just a backdrop to skills, knowledge and desire.
0:30.9	And there's so many different skills, so many different things that we need to know and people
0:36.0	we need to know and so many ways to accommodate our desire. For you, how have you seen the
0:42.0	industry or career of sports evolve as you've been involved in sports and entertainment for
0:46.9	such a long time? And now today, there's so many different aspects. How has that evolved for you?
0:52.7	Yeah, I would say it's interesting because I didn't always want to work in sports. I just
1:00.6	wanted to do interesting things and I happened to intersect with sports. And several years ago
1:07.9	when former commissioner David Stern was still with us, he came and gave a talk to all of our
1:13.9	interns. And if you intern at OverTime, you're hoping that you get a job in sports. And he said to
1:20.1	them, he said, you guys just, you need to be good at something. Like I was a lawyer. That's what
1:25.3	I was good at. And so nobody nobody's good at sports. Like what is what what is your, you know,
1:31.6	what is your skill? And if it ends up there, it ends up there. And I think for me, I was interested
1:38.1	in entrepreneurship and kind of content and digital stuff. And I think we kind of hit around
1:47.7	where there was a lot of generational change in the audience in sports. There was impact of social
1:52.0	media, even the impact of COVID and stuff like that. And you know, there's probably been more
1:58.8	changes in transformations in the last five years when you look at NIL, the MLS going Apple TV,
2:07.8	rule changes in the MBA and the NFL, all kinds of stuff like that. So for me, I kind of,
2:16.3	I make my bones when there's a lot of disruption because that's an opportunity to get
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