How Did Influencers Become So Powerful In Media? (ft. Bianca Belair interview)

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Erika gives some thoughts on Barstools 2022 Q1. What worked? How did the management turnover affect Barstool? She explains why Internet personalities are more important than ever right now, and how Q1 proved that. She visualizes the direction Barstool will go in the future, and the old "rules" she's throwing out in the departments. Later in the show, we talk to Bianca Belair ahead of Wrestlemania this weekend!! (00:01:22) Erika's Boardroom (00:18:54) Q&A (00:26:29) Bianca Belair (00:44:22) Circling Back

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0:00.0	Hey, token CEO listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
0:06.9	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music.
0:10.9	I guess for me another marker of this quarter, which is like, why the fuck are we doing it this way?
0:16.4	Like, we should not be doing that.
0:19.2	It's Thursday, March 31st, 2022. This is episode 209 of the token CEO podcast. I'm
0:26.9	Erica Nardini. I'm the CEO of Barstool Sports. This is our second year of doing this, which is
0:32.9	amazing. So shout out to the team who puts this thing on and makes it float. That's insane.
0:39.1	We've done 200 episodes in two years, 100 episodes a year. That's cool. All right, so thank you
0:44.2	most of all to everybody who's listening. If you have not already subscribed to us on YouTube,
0:50.5	so you can follow and watch the show on YouTube, or you can listen to this wherever podcasts are
0:57.1	consumed and sold. Shout out, work like a girl, where we only do Q&A, and we're launching that once
1:02.7	a week. So you can get the token CEO episode, which is a little bit more meandering. It's all about
1:08.1	what's happening here at Barstool, what's going on in the industry, and what our guest has to say
1:14.9	versus work like a girl is strictly advice and work advice. So if you have a work advice question,
1:21.5	you can DM us, either you can DM me at Erica on Instagram, you can DM token CEO and send us your
1:28.1	questions. You can also call in the next time we do a recording session and we'll be sure to let
1:33.1	you guys know that. Okay, so first up, let's talk about the boardroom. Here are things, what am I
1:38.3	thinking about? So it's the end of Q1. I think we had a tough Q1 as a company. Awesome Q1,
1:44.3	tough Q1. Huge amount of change inside of the company. I think that most companies right now
1:53.2	are grappling with a huge amount of change. I think the post-pandemic life has created a huge
1:59.2	amount of change the way employees want to work is creating a huge amount of change. The uncertainty
2:05.2	about the economy and the implications of the supply chain are creating a huge amount of change.
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