Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Fubo TV wants to take on the giants in streaming and in sports betting. Investors have sky-high expectations and skeptics think it will never work. Fubo TV CEO David Gandler talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the way his company has evolved since he founded it in 2015, and what it’s like to run a public company in the Gamestop/Reddit age. Featuring: David Gandler (@davidgandler), Co-Founder & CEO of Fubo TV Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:41.2	This is RECO video, Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm talking to David Gandler, the CEO of Fubo TV.
1:46.4	Welcome, David. Thank you very much. We were just talking off Mike. I've been talking to you for years, but we never actually sat down and done a formal interview, so now we get to do
1:51.0	one now. You guys have an interesting company, an interesting product, your interesting space
1:55.5	that I follow a lot. Your stock story separately from that has become really fascinating over the last year.
2:01.7	I want to talk about all of those things.
2:03.6	And maybe just to get into it at the beginning on the stock side, if the GameStop
2:08.9	saga hadn't kicked off and was it a month ago, two months ago, you would have been one
2:15.7	of the weirdest stock stories of the year.
2:17.6	You were a company that had gone public through a reverse merger just about a year ago.
2:23.0	Your stock was around eight or nine bucks.
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