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🗓️ 8 January 2022
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0:00.0 | Wins and losses are important, but I think it's also important to understand how you impact the game. |
0:08.6 | This is the playbook. I am excited to have TJ Addishola here. He's the head of USA Sports Partnerships |
0:16.9 | at a small company called Twitter and |
0:20.9 | ATJ. It's great to have me on the playbook, but you know, I'm a traditional sportsperson. I ran |
0:26.0 | the most notable sports agency in the world, Least Imer Sports Entertainment. And if somebody |
0:31.2 | would have told me who the players in sports would be, and compared to who they actually are here |
0:37.6 | coming into 2022, you know, Twitter would not have been at the top of my list, but you guys are |
0:43.6 | leading the way and would love to talk about first, Twitter's rolling sports for those who have |
0:50.4 | been hiding under a rock and may not know it. Yeah, well thanks, thanks for having me. I'm |
0:56.7 | super excited. I think that's a compliment, because at this point, I think about when I was in |
1:02.7 | college and when I was a kid in my MBA, I didn't, this job didn't exist. I didn't even think of |
1:08.5 | this as a pack. So to be, to play a role within this crazy as industry that is a sports industry, |
1:18.0 | a really important role. Man, it's humbling and exciting. It's interesting because these roles |
1:25.1 | that exist today, some of the best roles that exist today in sports were not even in existence. |
1:30.6 | And when we used to utilize quarterback talent, we would talk about the talent of Orion Lee for |
1:37.2 | Jeff George. That just told us the basement of what they would be, right? So Orion Lee, but |
1:43.8 | it's really your desire that determines your potential. And I find, you know, especially |
1:49.6 | younger people who want to work in sports, that their skill and knowledge is their basement. |
1:56.1 | And so they need to work on those skills and knowledge, but yet their desire is still their |
2:00.4 | potential. Their open-minded, open-hearted, open-handedness, their ability to adapt and to move |
2:06.7 | within the context of the sports world, which is an enormous industry. For you, what were the |
2:12.5 | skills and the knowledge, the basement stuff that you did in order to effectuate so many different |
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