David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…Which is kind of brilliant in its own right, right? When you think about in that era what the worst website would have been of 30 sort of random owners who are hiring random web development firms to do the contract work for that, it’s probably a good thing they centralized that function. It certainly is. But it kind of got off to an inauspicious start because the league and BAM itself made the same poor decision right off the bat and they, like any super corporate IT department because this is basically Major League Baseball’s IT department, they decided to outsource the website building to a consulting firm and pay them a ton of money. And as expected fashion, the consulting firm basically fails to deliver and the websites totally suck. So Robert Bowman who was the newly appointed CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which we’re just going to call BAM for the rest of the episode, he quickly made the decision which ends up being probably the best decision that Major League Baseball has ever made, to build a tech team inhouse, bring on really good developers and start owning and building out all the technology inside of BAM. Yeah, pretty interesting.…

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