Zack Weiner: President and Co-Founder of Overtime | #ThePlaybook 203

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Zack Weiner, President and Co-Founder of Overtime, discusses the changing preferences of today’s young sports fans and how Overtime caters its content to the next generation. Weiner also talks about the origins of the company and how the startup he launched in college prepared him to solve some of the problems in the sports media market that Overtime addresses. Weiner and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including the importance of testing an idea in the market before working to scale it, why Zack tries to give potential investors what he calls “greedy eyes”, and how to take an unselfish approach to raising capital. Text me for opportunities to meet up: (949) 298-2905 Where I'm speaking: https://dmeltzer.com/events/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the playbook, I have Zach Wiener, president and co-founder of overtime,
0:05.6	and he's going to teach us how to tap into Gen Z, making sure that we test appropriate ideas to market
0:12.3	before working it to scale.
0:14.1	Learn all of this and more on The Playbook.
0:17.0	This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,
0:22.1	celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk
0:24.7	about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them
0:29.1	champions on the field and boardroom.
0:37.0	I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.
0:40.0	This Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs of the playbook and I have a superstar in the house, Zach Wiener, the co-founder and president of overtime.
0:45.1	Huge fan of your company, but really want to Zach get into,
0:47.9	number one, thank you for being here,
0:50.0	but talk about, I mean, you're so young, so successful, a lot of entrepreneurs kind of set their
0:55.6	bars a little too high. And I wanted to get your perspective when you were just starting out,
1:02.4	where you set your bar for the consistent. when you were just starting out,
1:02.5	where you set your bar for the consistent behavior
1:05.3	that has made you the success you are so far.
1:07.5	Yeah, I think it's an excellent question
1:08.9	because I have a lot of friends that want to start companies
1:11.9	or people come to me all the time.
1:13.2	I'm a new superhero man.
1:14.8	Let's be honest, I used to represent athletes now.
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