Disrupting sports sponsorship from the outside with Ishveen Anand
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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Ishveen is the Founder + CEO of award-winning marketplace OpenSponsorship (listed by Forbes as one of the hottest sports start-ups.), a VC backed startup connecting brands like Glassdoor, Verizon and Draftkings to pro athletes, teams and events. She was named on the Forbes 30under30 list and is an expert on sports sponsorship.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcomed episode |
| 0:07.9 | 1900 in 90 of EO fire right chat with entrepreneurs on fire |
| 0:13.4 | seven days a week productivity discipline and focus those are my |
| 0:18.2 | three greatest strengths and they can be yours to visit the |
| 0:21.7 | mastery journal dot com and master all three skills in a |
| 0:25.0 | hundred days. Now let's chat with today's featured guest ish |
| 0:28.0 | Vien Anand ish are you prepared to ignite I am thanks for having me |
| 0:34.2 | John ish ish is the founder and CEO of the award winning |
| 0:38.3 | marketplace open sponsorship a VC back startup checking |
| 0:42.3 | brands like glass door Verizon and draft kings to pro athletes |
| 0:46.6 | teams and events ish was recently named on the Forbes 30 |
| 0:50.7 | under 30 list and is an expert on sports sponsorship ish |
| 0:55.6 | take a minute fill in some gaps from that in show and give us a |
| 0:58.4 | little glimpse of your personal life. Yeah absolutely thank you for |
| 1:01.7 | the introduction so I was a sports agent prior to that I had been |
| 1:07.2 | a management consultant I graduated from Oxford and then I had a |
| 1:09.9 | big career change as I'm sure many of your listeners have and I |
| 1:13.6 | decided that my passion was sports and someone had recommended |
| 1:17.6 | that you know why don't I look at sponsorship because it's the |
| 1:19.8 | backbone of all sports I took their advice I flew to India |
| 1:24.0 | thinking well if I'm going to do one big change why not do two and so |
| 1:27.4 | this is back in 2009 became a sports agent fast forward did very |
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