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Insightful convos with the founders, operators, and investors transforming the future of sports.
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#348: Jay Ciccarone, Lace Up | Building Head-to-Toe Weighted Performance Gear (opens the original)
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Jay Ciccarone is a veteran inventor and product innovator with decades of experience spanning golf club manufacturing, consumer goods, and wearable performance technology. Driven by a passion for functional movement and sports science, Jay holds multiple patents centered around soft-weighted resistance technology designed to enhance athletic training, build targeted muscle strength, and assist in physical rehabilitation. His company, Lace Up, is a pioneer in weighted sports gear and wearable tec
#347: Jovany Ruiz, Friday Stairs - Building a Free 50-City Fitness Movement (opens the original)
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Jovany Ruiz is Founder & CEO of Friday Stairs, a rapidly growing free weekly fitness ritual and community movement built on democratizing health and wellness.Ruiz shares his story from growing up in a 127-person village in Puerto Rico to playing Division I college football and track at the University at Buffalo, pursuing the NFL, and enduring seven knee surgeries. He details how overcoming adversity led him to realize that sports were merely a vehicle for his true purpose: building fellowship, l
#346: Amos Varon & Eyal Arad - Ripple Analytics|Fan-Generated Content Are Revolutionizing Sports Marketing (opens the original)
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Eyal Arad (Co-Founder & CEO) and Amos Varon (Chief Business Officer) of Ripple Analytics (formerly Videocites) ulock the Hidden 80% of Social Media Value in Sports. They explore the shifting landscape of sports media and social media intelligence, discussing how rights holders, sports properties, and global brands can track the full value of user-generated content (UGC) and earned media far beyond their owned channels. Arad and Varon share the origin story of Videocites starting as an anti-pirac
#345: Adam Sloustcher, Fisher Phillips - Proactive Legal Protection Is Essential for Sports Innovators (opens the original)
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Adam Sloustcher is the Co-Chair at Fisher Phillips, a leading labor and employment law firm. Sloustcher shares his journey from elite youth soccer at the U.S. Soccer Residency Program (IMG Academy) and playing Division I soccer at UNC Chapel Hill and Loyola Marymount University, to signing with the San Jose Earthquakes before transitioning into a legal career focused on labor and employment law.Sloustcher outlines how Fisher Phillips navigates employment and workplace law in the sports landscape
#344: Joel Bar-El - Swish | Unicorn Founder’s Playbook: Raising $1B+ & Building Swish (opens the original)
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Joel Bar-El is a tech entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO of Swish. Bar-El previously co-founded Trax, a retail computer vision platform that grew into a multi-billion-dollar unicorn after raising over $1 billion in primary and secondary capital. Drawing on his lifelong involvement in basketball as a player and Israeli league referee, Bar-El has now turned his attention to transforming sports technology through low-cost sensor integration.Swish turns standard basketball courts into smart courts us
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