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No. 21 — Michael Rubin

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Michael Rubin

Founder & Executive Chairman, Fanatics

Change from 2017: -2

Expertly rolling up what was a disjointed sports-licensing industry into a billion-dollar company, Rubin now must prove Fanatics has endurance. The dissolution of Fanatics’ venue sales agreement with NASCAR shows it doesn’t work everywhere. Questions about the unquestioned industry leader’s end game persist: Is it an IPO, sale or status quo?

Sue Bird and Dawn Porter talk upcoming doc, Ricardo Viramontes of UNINTERRUPTED and NBA conference finals

This week’s pod comes to you from 4se where SBJ’s Austin Karp is joined by basketball legend Sue Bird and award-winning director Dawn Porter as the duo share how their documentary, Power of the Dream, came together and what viewers can expect. Later in the show ,Ricardo Viramontes of The SpringHill Company/UNINTERRUPTED talks about how LeBron James and Maverick Carter are making their own mark in original content. Plus SBJ’s Mollie Cahillane joins the pod to add insight into the WNBA’s hot start and gets us set for the NBA Conference Finals.

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