The Business and Future of Sports

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How do agents, athletes, and corporate sponsors work together? If I'm micro-betting on the next rebound, will I care about the final score? When can I strap on a VR headset and watch the game from inside the ball? Octagon Founder and President Phil De Picciotto joins David to talk about the business and the future of sports.

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0:00.0	From amateur tennis player and tennis photographer, a company by a law degree from Penn,
0:06.2	my special guest this week has built one of the great sports agency businesses of our time,
0:10.5	Octagon Worldwide, which today is owned, is a division of Interpublic Group, IPG,
0:16.1	on the New York Stock Exchange.
0:17.9	Phil DiPichiato has been in the business for decades.
0:20.6	His firm today represents star athletes like, well, have you heard of the NBA
0:24.7	Stephen Curry?
0:25.7	In addition to his entrepreneurial story, which we will cover this week, Phil is a visionary
0:30.3	about the sports world.
0:31.5	And so I'm equally interested in learning and sharing with
0:34.2	you some of his thoughts about the future. So from a rule breaker in the
0:38.8	sporting world we get insights, inspiration and fun fun only on Rule Breaker Investing.
0:45.0	Thanks to LinkedIn for supporting the Rule Breaker Investing podcast.
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1:00.6	LinkedIn.com slash Fool.
1:03.2	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
1:10.1	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:15.6	Well, I've been talking about this interview for a few weeks leading up to it, and now here
1:19.6	we are.
1:20.6	Here we are on, well, this comes out May 14th, 2019.
1:25.0	Ironically or interestingly, that is one year ago to the date that,
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