Jesse Cole
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Podcast Appearances
And so he's like, I need to gain control back.
You know, he only gave out control again when he was building Disneyland.
But he gave away control to ABC and his publishing company, but then he bought it all back within five years.
And what we've learned is whenever you have different shareholders, different investors, other people, we've had numerous people reach out.
They want to return.
They want to have control.
They want to affect the experience.
They would do so many things that aren't fans first for us, which is keeping no ticket fees, no convenient fees, no service fees, pay our fans taxes, no shipping fees, keeping all our games free on YouTube, not having sponsorship everywhere.
All the things that we do that's unconventional, a shareholder investor would want to do that.
And so we have no interest in playing that game.
We want to keep doing what's best for fans.
Yeah, guys, think about this.
Five years ago, we served 100,000 fans.
We were playing traditional baseball.
Okay.
And we left an animal, disrupted ourself.
And that model was college.
You couldn't pay the players.
It was a very good, healthy business model.
Let's go to professional now.