Chris Park
@almostbernard
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Founder, Echo Group Holdings. Board, KACF.
NY/NJ
Joined December 2017
I'm excited to launch Echo Group Holdings (@echogrouphold), a holding company concentrating on youth and college sports. We are building in a transformative market with our seed investors including Mark Attanasio, @ElysianParkVC, @ScrumVentures, and @AlignmentGrowth.
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This USA TODAY piece from Matt Hayes (SEC mouthpiece) is riddled with errors and sensationalism that mislead readers. First, this isn't "private equity" or "sharks" fleecing anyone. It's a capital investment from UC Investments, a public pension fund for California state
Is Tony Petitti trying to kill the Big Ten all by himself? Because he's off to a helluva start. https://t.co/b5ph05KlNZ
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A Big Ten school official on the perceived lack of transparency regarding the league's $2.4 billion financial arrangement: “There's a piece of this that is just ridiculous. So whatever anybody thinks about the deal, the idea that there hasn't been transparency is laughable.
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The days are early and the data noisy, but college FB programs appear to be outspending cap-optimized NFL teams at QB and WR. How much of this reflects the unique, indirect influence of college donors -- and how soon before college programs themselves optimize?
College Football Roster Optimization in an Era of Noisy Data
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In our inaugural Recruiting Playbook newsletter post, @l_hunt01 shares why top college football coaches value well-rounded youth training the most -- and why tackling can wait. https://t.co/Aida1tn7Py
recruiting-playbook.beehiiv.com
Lauren Hunt Legler is a former college football recruiting and operations staffer with experience working for Ivy League, BIG10, and ACC football programs. She has a degree in Psychology from...
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More on our founding thesis at https://t.co/dtKQdlG1Kg. Follow us @echogrouphold for news.
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Introducing Echo Group Holdings
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We are creating Echo Group Holdings to build the commercial-cultural infrastructure youth and college sports needs to realize its best future. That future will activate communities, not just dopamine. It will lean into academic affiliation, open access, and generational IP.
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Youth and college sports is uniquely tied to the identity graph. Yet the $40B sector needs broader access and professionalized solutions. Elite youth sports GDP and total participation are moving in opposite directions. College sports is enduring disruption in every direction.
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Yet kids' series growth leads streaming. The NFL dominates Nielsen. And Taylor Swift owns arenas. Content that overcomes oversupply serves communities built around core identity, not just packs of fans. We think of this as the identity graph.
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The Internet has reshaped entertainment supply-and-demand. Big legacy TV networks lost $7B on streaming in 2023. Average attention spans shrank by 70% in the preceding 2 decades. Even "good" content cannot thrive alone in this era of oversupply.
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me when the Sonics come back
The reaction of two scientists when they realized they had captured images of an animal not seen for 140 years
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so relatable
Kristaps Porzingis takes a 10-second pause when asked if he’s running pain free, smiles, and then says: “Yes.”
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"From SVB's perspective, it was very unfortunate that they weren't called Farmer's Bank of Santa Clara."
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like looking in a futuristic mirror
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This photo. Phil Knight (Nike founder) is the only one enjoying the moment without his phone.
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You're arguing about whether Shannon Sharpe could've taken Steven Adams I'm googling to see where he got that chunky cardigan. We are not the same.
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