David Rosenthal: recommendation

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…And we are your hosts. So today, David and I are continuing our journey along sports and technology by diving into Major League Baseball’s 2015 spin-out of a company called BAMTech from their Advanced Media or MLBAM group, and the 2016 minority investment into BAMTech by Disney. So David, I’m ridiculously pumped for this episode. Me too. Not only and for our listeners, even if you don’t care about sports, you should keep listening because not only is this one of the most interesting sports tech deals that’s happened in the last decade plus, but this is actually I think really important to understand from just a pure technology standpoint when it comes to the future television and things we’ve talked about on this show a lot with Twitch and Amazon and YouTube and even Snapchat. So stay tuned for this one. Yeah. It’s like there was a secret big tech company hiding inside of a sports league for like a decade and a half. And they had more foresight and more premonitions than the best streaming services out there and had their technology. I mean reading into all this, I really couldn’t believe it. Like we give a lot of credit to a lot of these other companies, Netflix being one of them, for being these sort of digital pioneers, and baseball is making bets five years earlier.…

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