🏀 How Overtime Grew to 85 Million Fans | Dan Porter (Co-founder and CEO, Overtime)

The Peel with Turner Novak

Dan Porter is the Co-founder and CEO of Overtime, a sports network for the next generation of fans. OT reaches 85 million fans per month and runs a basketball league (Overtime Elite, OTE), a flag football league (OT7), and is launching a boxing league (OTX) the week this episode airs.

Dan started Overtime with his co-founder Zack Weiner in 2016, and has since raised over $215 million. OT is supported by investors like the late ex-NBA Commissioner David Stern, Jeff Bezos, Drake, Carmelo Anthony, Trae Young, over 25 other NBA players, Spark Capital, Redpoint, a16z, Greycroft, Afore Capital, and Banana Capital. [Turner Novak and Banana Capital are investors in Overtime].

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In this episode, we discuss:

The business of sports

Why people love sports

The founding story of Overtime

How to raise money for a unique idea

Overtime’s very first product

How to bet on technological change

The changing professional sports landscape

How to launch a sports league

Why founders must obsess over their product

Read the transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/how-overtime-grew-to-85-million-fans

Where to find Dan: Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/tfadp⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/danporter/⁠

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Read the full transcript: https://www.thespl.it/p/how-overtime-grew-to-85-million-fans

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