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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
24 Mar 2025 Acquired Indian Premier League Cricket
“Major League Cricket, for listeners out there, I’d spent a good amount of time with Soma Somasegar, who is the former Microsoft exec now at Madrona, who is a co-owner with Satya Nadella of the Seattle Major League Cricket team. It is very interesting getting his perspective on developing Major League Cricket in the US because I think the whole bet with Major League Cricket is we got to build cricket fandom domestically in a grassroots way with players here, slowly over time.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- Recorded
- 24 Mar 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Indian Premier League Cricket
Transcript context
…8:00 PM in India is (I believe) 7:30 AM on the West Coast of the United States. That is the single biggest challenge. So this is the argument for a domestic cricket market. Major League Cricket, for listeners out there, I’d spent a good amount of time with Soma Somasegar, who is the former Microsoft exec now at Madrona, who is a co-owner with Satya Nadella of the Seattle Major League Cricket team. It is very interesting getting his perspective on developing Major League Cricket in the US because I think the whole bet with Major League Cricket is we got to build cricket fandom domestically in a grassroots way with players here, slowly over time. This is not going to be this big explosion out of the chute. And frankly, Americans are just not going to start caring about IPL Cricket. They need to start caring about US-based cricket. Yup. Okay. Whole bunch to talk about here. The biggest swing on this is going to be a single event that is going to happen in 2028.…
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