The Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast is an “audio biography” series with the leading Entrepreneurs and Movers & Shakers in the business of Sports & Esports of the past 40 years. Marcus drills deep into the career of his guests, what worked and what didn’t, the learning from the good, bad and ugly. Through his wide network, Marcus is able to host top guests from across the industry and from around the world. As a western Sports Entrepreneur operating in Asia for the past 25 years, it has a certain East-West flavour.
What he did to Bielsa was totally dumb and totally disgusting. Andrea was a hopeless loser before Bielsa and a hopeless loser after. Bielsa made him a success. Not only did he not thank him, he sacked him and orchestrated a campaign to smear him, using Eddie Gray. Vile beyond belief! Bielsa's final season at Leeds was actually his best. He was well on track to keep them up in incredibly difficult circumstances. But Andrea was too dumb to see this. He's so obsessed with the media and looking good in the media that he allowed the anti-Bielsa media to influence him. The decision to replace Bielsa with Jesse Marsch was such a nonsensical downgrade that he should be investigated for corruption and banned from ever owning a football club again. I certainly don't ever want to hear his stupid voice again. What makes you think anyone else will?
This time coming from Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪. Philipp Grothe is a fellow German veteran Sports Entrepreneur and especially well known for his exploits as the Co-founder of Kentaro, the UK Football agency which was a key player in the Football rights business for over a decade. ⚽ Phillip's illustrious career spans over two decades and he shares great stories from his time at UFA Sports and IMG. Tons of great anecdotes from the world of Football and some of the biggest names in the sport. As always, hope you enjoy another great discussion and story telling from the wild world of sports.
A Special Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Edition with a Special Guest. 🎙🎧 Hear lots of great details on Patrick Mouratoglou new NFT project which was just announced yesterday. Exciting ideas and new innovative concepts from the #1 Tennis Coach 🎾. Befitting to call his NFT Serie "The Coach". Check out our short discussion (not the usual long format) and let us know what you think. The next full Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast is coming next week. Stay tuned. Get ready for The Coach NFT series pre-sale on March 17 (today). More details on www.thecoachnft.io
Very excited to see my Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast listed in the top 8 of "Sports Business" Podcasts in the world. A lot of hours and hard work has gone into it. The acknowledgement is appreciated. 🙏 Check out Sports Podcast Awards links below for details. 🎙🎧 lnkd.in/gzc-nU77 lnkd.in/g4QPv4AM If you enjoyed what we have produced the last two years and the amazing guests who shared their stories and learning, please register and vote for us to win it 😁🙏. Thank you for your continued support 👍. #sportsentrepreneurspodcast #sportspodcastawards #podcasting #sports
It's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Day 🎙 🎧. This time we are coming from the City of London, talking Money 💷💶💵 with Ben Smith of FLM . This is not my usual Podcast format but I believe a highly important message and a very valuable lesson for anyone (parents, coaches, etc) involved and guiding young Athletes, Gamers, Streamers, Entertainers or basically anyone who is making money at a young age. Please listen carefully and take notes. Ben shares very valuable advise and tips which could be the difference between a financially secure future or disaster. We are discussing both sides of the coin. Enjoy. PS. The Podcast was NOT sponsored by FLM and no financial advise or recommendation is given.
It's the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast drop Day 🎙️🎧 Welcome to another episode folks, featuring my good friend Murray Barnett, live from London, England. Tons of great stories and insights into his career from his days at the National Basketball Association in Europe, ISL Marketing (before it collapsed), World Rugby, Formula 1 and ESPN International. And off course his start as Entrepreneur during the Pandemic. We discuss the differences between selling media and sponsorship rights. Anyone who has done both will identify with that part. As always, enjoy and let us hear your thoughts. Happy Listening 😊.
It's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast drop day 🎙️🎧. My buddy Stephane Schindler is a "Game Changer" in the true sense of the word, first as Employee #1 of Lagardere Sports buying agencies across the world and now with his own agency CAA Eleven, changing the face of UEFA National Team Football over the past decade. Lots of great stories and learning from his IMG and Lagardere Sports days. And a deep dive into how CAA Eleven started, won the UEFA deal and is continuing to break new grounds including the recent Euro 2020 in 2021. Great weekend listen. Enjoy 🙏
Coming to you from London, Mr. Andrew Croker as outspoken and entertaining as ever. Awesome stories dating back to 1973 when it all began. Andrew takes us on a great journey across his 40+ years in the industry. Tons of history lessons and learning for anyone from a Chairman's perspective. Enjoy hearing stories about Sir Frank Lowe, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, Sir Len Blavatnik and Sepp Blatter and the "infamous" Frank Lampard "no goal" at the South Africa World Cup. We were both at the game and obviously had a vastly different feeling afterwards 😂🤔. Great one for the weekend. Enjoy and share 🙏 #sportsentrepreneurspodcast #football #Perform #IMG #Dazn
And for good measure here is the latest Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast drop 🎙️🎧. Awesome discussion with John West on his entrepreneurial journey and building Team Whistle over the past 10 years into a giant "UGC" (User Generated Content) machine and recently partnering with ELEVEN SPORTS HQ and my buddy Andrea Radrizzani. Worth every minute, full of great stories and learning for anyone who wants to understand what makes GenZ tick and how and what content they consume. John and his team have cracked the code. With over 4 billion monthly video views, 630 mil followers across Social media and a stable of over 1,300 influencers, talent and channels, Team Whistle is killing it 💪👍. Check it out now or mark it for your weekend listening. As always, available across all major Streaming platforms under "The Sports Entrepreneurs by Marcus Luer". Enjoy and give us feedback 🙏.
Yes it's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Drop Day 🎙️ 🎧. Great discussion with Harpreet Singh Rai, the CEO of ŌURA giving us a close look behind the scenes of the company, its tremendous growth the past year, the blue chip investors behind it and future plans. The wearable Health & Wellness device space is already massive, with 200 mil units sold globally. Oura is well positioned to take a big slice of it. The smart ring is easy to wear and delivers incredible data points (full disclosure, I am a proud user and love it). Enjoy our discussion and learning about the latest in smart sports & health tech space.
Timing is everything...Hope you are enjoying the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021. Better late than never in this case. We got our timing right with a very relevant Podcast Drop today. Terrence Burns is a true Veteran in and around the Olympics, from helping cities/countries win the hosting rights to guiding brands through the labyrinth of sponsorship negotiations and activitions around the Games. As always on the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast, deep insights, great stories and tons of learning and take home value from someone who has been over 30 years in the trenches. Enjoy the Games and learning a bit more about them.
Drop everything and listen 😂. Thrilled to drop my recent podcast with Patrick Mouratoglou. Had a chance to catch up with "The Coach" in between the French Open and Wimbledon. Patrick is best known for his incredible success the last decade winning 10 Grand Slams as the coach of Serena Williams and guiding many other top tennis players but there is so much more to this man. We start with a completely unexpected amazing "warm up" story from his childhood and the lessons learned from it. Patrick takes us deep inside his incredible career from his humble beginnings renting a few courts in a Paris suburb, to his partnership with Bob Brett, to putting his own name on the door and finally stepping on the court as a Coach. It's not your traditional career path and full of challenges and incredible lessons learned. Off course we also discuss his successful tennis academies, Mouratoglou Academy and his passion to teach kids and his latest project the "UTS", Ultimate Tennis Showdown. Enjoy my hour with Patrick before he had to rush off to train with Serena. 🎾
It's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Drop Day 🎙️ 🎧. This time we travelled to Turino, Italy and caught up with Giampiero Rinaudo, also better known as Gipi, the Co-Founder & CEO of Deltatre. We are diving deep into the evolution of the business he founded 35 years ago and still runs today. Deltatre has truly been at the forefront of sports tech innovations for decades, from originally starting in timing solutions for Formula 1 to now being involved at the cutting edge of OTT and streaming. With clients ranging from FIFA to the National Football League (NFL) and off course Bruin Capital as major shareholders and partners. Learn from over three decades of wisdom and stories and hear how Deltatre weathered the Pandemic with its over 1,000 staff and what he is planning next. Enjoy.
It's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Drop Day . Great discussion with my buddy Clive Bowen on his journey from Rolls-Royce to building beautiful "Race Resorts" around the globe. From the first one, the Dubai Autodrome Circuit to the latest project, the Miami F1 track which was recently added to the Formula 1 calendar. Great behind the scene look into the world of racing and the differences between an F1 track and "resort tracks". Clive's career is a steady progression with each role and experience building the foundation for the next one. Some great stories from his Middle East days. Apex Circuit Design Ltd. is right at the top the game and the involvement in the new circuit in Miami is a great testament to the company's ability. Enjoy and as always love your feedback.
It's Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast drop day Great session with fellow German Sports Marketing Veteran Joachim Hilke currently Managing Director Global Partnerships at online sports merchandise retail giant @fanatics. Great insides on how the USD 12 billion dollar valued (up from 6b last year) company works with its clients (the biggest US sports brands in ) and its global ambitions Joachim is leading, especially in European Football . Off course we also explored his colorful career across the NFL Europe, Sportfive and his days on the board of HSV (at that time a major club in German Football). As always lots of great stories and learning from "rowdy" American Football players in Germany in the 90s to the latest trends in the fast growing online sports fan apparel and fan Swag world. Check it out.
It's the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Day. Excited to share my very insightful discussion with Ricardo Fort. We took a deep dive into his amazing career across The Coca-Cola Company and Visa (to name a few) and off course discussed his new entrepreneurial exploits with Sport By Fort Consulting. Tons of wisdom and nuggets for anyone interested to learn how the big Brands/Sponsors think and operate. Ricardo spent his incredible career, deploying hundreds of millions of sponsorship and advertising dollars. Hear his views on sports as a platform from the perspective of a true “Advertising Man” (with a Civil Engineering degree). Enjoy
Happy Wednesday folks. It's the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast drop day. 👊 Excited to release our latest podcast with fellow senior Sports Executive Mark Pannes. Great deep dive into his illustrations career from US Basketball (New York Knicks) to European Football (AS Roma) and beyond to his own agency now. When we recorded it the European Super League had just "imploded" so we took a good look at it too from different angles. Mark's perspective and thoughts as a US Sports executive who has worked in top flight European Football are very relevant. As always, enjoy the stories and learning. You can also catch Mark weekly on Clubhouse with his partner Michael Broughton on OTT Sports Speakeasy. Check them out.
For everyone "bored" with the ESL drama, here is the latest @sportsentrepreneurs Podcast 🎙️, talking about the exciting world of sports in the Middle East from motorsports to major other events heading to the region. No one better than my buddy Paul Berger for this topic, a 30 year veteran of the region and in sports. Great stories and insights into how the Dubai Autodrome started, his involvement in the Abu Dhabi F1 contract and off course his current role in Arena Events Group plc (a 260 year old UK company) as CEO EMEA. Enjoy and as always welcome your thoughts. Btw, the aftermath of ESL will be covered in the next Podcast. Stay tuned. 🎙️
If you haven't heard of NFTs you must have been sleeping under a rock the last few months . Amazing session with my buddy Hrish Lotlikar of SuperWorld who is one of the smartest people I call a friend. You will know why I say this after listening and once you learn what he is building at Superworldsapp and how that links to NFTs and the potential for sports, gaming, music, arts and other IP owners. Great crash course in the world of NFTs, metaverse, augmented reality, Blockchain and beyond. Get involved and don't miss the boat folks.
Proud to hit the magic #50 and excited to have another amazing sports leader on my Podcast. Sophie Goldschmidt has been recognised globally as one of the most influential women in sports and worked at the highest level across the WTA , National Basketball Association , England Rugby and the World Surf League. Great insight stories into her experiences at these organizations and how she helped shape the directions of the sports. Perfect listening for the long Easter weekend in many parts of the world. And if you new to the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast, check us out across all your favourite Podcast platforms. 50 episodes with the top Sports & Esports leaders from across the globe, this is a Master degree in Sports based on the combined 1,500 years of wisdom of my guests. Happy listening 👂 👈🙏.
This week we are jetting to Brazil to catch up with my good friend Frederico Pena. Fun deep dive into the world of Brazilian and South American Football, everything that's great and wrong with it. Fred was inspired by the movie "Jerry Maguire" growing up and worked hard to become the Brazilian Football Version of it. Hear how it all started, the success and demise of Traffic Sports Marketing, Brazil's biggest football agency, how we worked successfully together on a few projects and his ambitions with his own agency now and his Jerry Maguire moment. Join us for an hour of fun stories from the most fascinating Football country in the world, the land of the 5 x World Cup winners.
It's Digital Friday folks with the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast. Pls enjoy my detailed discussion with fellow Kölner and Digital Expert Andreas Heyden of DFL Digital Sports GmbH the Digital arm of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga. The Bundesliga is not only one of the top Football Leagues in the world (despite the poor performance of my club) and clearly aims to become the leading digital Football league in the world. Great inside look into Andreas' knowledge and his current innovations in German Football. Must listen for any League executive in this space. Happy Friday and have a great weekend
As promised, coinciding with the launch of the new Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team yesterday, we are dropping my Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast with Jeff Slack, the recently appointed Managing Director of the Aston Martin F1 Team. Jeff had an incredible career around the world, starting at Donald Dell's ProServe working with David Falk and Michael Jordan, moving to Italy as the CEO of Inter Milan before settling in London with the likes of Wasserman, IMG Football and his own agency JS3 Sports Ltd. We go across his career and of course have a close look into the newest member of the Formula 1 family with a history dating back 60 years. As always, enjoy listening to great stories and learning from a career spanning 3 decades.
It's that time of the week folks. "ESPN - an insider's story" only on the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast. Bernard Stewart shares his 30 year journey and stories from his very early days at ESPN to how the first true Sports Network became the undisputed "worldwide leader in Sports". How it all started, the growth and challenges, overseas expansions, SPORTEL - The Global Sports Media & Technology Convention stories, comparing the height of Cable TV in the US to current trends in OTT and so much more. Enjoy our nearly 2 hrs of in depth discussion, stories and ancedots. Bernard is a very private man and many of these stories have never been told. Hope you enjoy our discussion as much as I enjoyed recording it. And off course his smooth radio voice 😊. As always love your feedback.
Happy Chinese New Year folks. 🦬🙏 Just on time for your new year's entertainment please find another inspirational episode of the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast. John Gleasure, Group Executive Vice Chairman of DAZN Group and founding director of Perform is my guest and shares his amazing journey. We are taking a close look into how Perform & DAZN were started, what has worked and what is still work in progress. How going Public and back private is all part of the journey. The real journey for DAZN has just begun as the leading OTT player in sports (who doesn't like to be called the Netflix of Sports 🤔. Well, could be worst being compared with a USD 250 billion company with 200 mil subs). It took Sky ten years before it became profitable and DAZN is only four years at it. As always lots of great stories and learning inside. Enjoy and pls share your thoughts. Gong Xi Fa Cai 🇨🇳.
💥Excited💥 to release the latest Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast with my good friend Lucien Boyer. A true sports marketing pioneer👍 with a French flavour, an amazing career and great stories to back it up. Enjoy our journey through Lucien’s career across France, Australia and the UK, from the America’s Cup to FIFA World Cups and Coca-Cola to Louis Vuitton. Lucien has leveraged the power of major global competitions, helped big brands form successful partnerships with rights holders and create new concepts for IP owners throughout his career. Enjoy the stories and also learn more about his latest ventures into Private Equity and Esports. And check out Lucien’s upcoming event @globalsportsweek www.globalsportsweek.com from Feb 1-5, 2021. Top industry speakers and the first big virtual summit of the year. As always, do share with us your thoughts and feedback and happy listening! 🎙️👂
Another top Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast coming your way for your weekend Edutainment. This time we are going BIG into Gaming & Esports with my youngest guest so far, Chris Smith of BIG Esports. Half the age of my last week's guest 😉. Love that contrast. I call the episode "Gaming/Esports 101" as it's a true crash course into that fascinating Ecosystem, while comparing it with the sports industry. I have no doubt there is something for everyone from insiders to novices in this fast growing space. I promise you will be a bit smarter on how to go after GenZ (if you are a marketeer, brand or sports IP owner), how to talk the talk (if you want to do business in this industry), learn where the money is in Gaming or how to get into the industry if you are an inspiring Gamer. Love your feedback as always. A few more great podcasts lined up till the end of the year. We are closing 2020 as we started, with a bang. Stay tuned. ......................................................................................... Listen to the Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast Marcusluer Podcast: marcusluer.com/podcast Apple Podcast: bit.ly/applesportsentrepreneurs Spotify: bit.ly/spotifysportsentrepreneurs Podbean: podcast.marcusluer.com Stitcher: bit.ly/stitcherSportsentrepreneurs RU-vid: bit.ly/sportsentrepreneurspodcast .........................................................................................
Hi Marcus. You do a great job with these interviews. Excellent with Stacey and with Michael Payne, both of whom I know. Stacey voted for us as the winner of the Tennis Industry Association Innovation Challenge last year: virtualsportsassociation.com/innovation-challenge/ Toward the end of your interview with Stacey, you asked about the future. I have something that may interest you: virtualsportsassociation.com/oracle-cloud-sport/ Let me know if I'm right. Cheers, Victor Bond
