Lalit Modi

The young team comes home. Lala calls up Nike before they leave South Africa, and he's like, I need open-air tour buses. For the team, for the whole retinue, you can meet us at the airport. We are going to do a parade to the stadium in Mumbai, and we're going to have a big, huge victory celebration, just like they do in Western sports after they win a World Cup. They come home.

The young team comes home. Lala calls up Nike before they leave South Africa, and he's like, I need open-air tour buses. For the team, for the whole retinue, you can meet us at the airport. We are going to do a parade to the stadium in Mumbai, and we're going to have a big, huge victory celebration, just like they do in Western sports after they win a World Cup. They come home.

The team arrives at the Mumbai airport at 6 a.m. The crowds are packed. There are 4 million people on the streets. It takes them 11 hours to get from the airport to the stadium. It's all televised all across the country. It's like a national holiday. And it is the most perfect... Fertile ground in which to insert the imminently about to launch IPL.

The team arrives at the Mumbai airport at 6 a.m. The crowds are packed. There are 4 million people on the streets. It takes them 11 hours to get from the airport to the stadium. It's all televised all across the country. It's like a national holiday. And it is the most perfect... Fertile ground in which to insert the imminently about to launch IPL.

But there's one key thing underlying all this, and that's the data that makes it all useful. After all, AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into and the data it has access to. So a couple of years ago, ServiceNow realized that having a coherent set of data was going to be essential as the world got more complicated with AI.

But there's one key thing underlying all this, and that's the data that makes it all useful. After all, AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into and the data it has access to. So a couple of years ago, ServiceNow realized that having a coherent set of data was going to be essential as the world got more complicated with AI.

In the old world, each department ran applications that were creating their own data in their own silos. And when AI agents came around and needed to communicate across all that data and across departments, that was going to be untenable. So ServiceNow introduced Workflow Data Fabric,

In the old world, each department ran applications that were creating their own data in their own silos. And when AI agents came around and needed to communicate across all that data and across departments, that was going to be untenable. So ServiceNow introduced Workflow Data Fabric,

their way to unify all that data across the enterprise and let workflows and AI agents have real-time secure access to data from any source.

their way to unify all that data across the enterprise and let workflows and AI agents have real-time secure access to data from any source.

This is just one way that ServiceNow unifies silos across your business so your employees can stop swivel-chairing between apps to enter the same data in different places and just make better decisions faster. If you want to learn more, go to servicenow.com slash acquired and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.

This is just one way that ServiceNow unifies silos across your business so your employees can stop swivel-chairing between apps to enter the same data in different places and just make better decisions faster. If you want to learn more, go to servicenow.com slash acquired and just tell them that Ben and David sent you.

Yep, we have finally arrived at what we've been hinting at the whole episode, just the sheer brilliance of how IPL is architected. So if you are, from a clean sheet of paper, trying to design the perfect sport league, there are two things that you need to really try and maximize to make it appealing to an audience.

Yep, we have finally arrived at what we've been hinting at the whole episode, just the sheer brilliance of how IPL is architected. So if you are, from a clean sheet of paper, trying to design the perfect sport league, there are two things that you need to really try and maximize to make it appealing to an audience.

First is that it needs to be the best place in the world to showcase human skill and achievement in that sport, i.e., you need the best players in the world playing there. Two, though—and this is where a lot of sports leagues go wrong— You need uncertainty about the outcome. You need competitive parity amongst the teams in the league.

First is that it needs to be the best place in the world to showcase human skill and achievement in that sport, i.e., you need the best players in the world playing there. Two, though—and this is where a lot of sports leagues go wrong— You need uncertainty about the outcome. You need competitive parity amongst the teams in the league.

This is the any given Sunday element of the NFL that has been the key critical ingredient to making the NFL the most valuable sports property in the world.

This is the any given Sunday element of the NFL that has been the key critical ingredient to making the NFL the most valuable sports property in the world.

Yes, I was taking it as tautological that that is what you are trying to achieve.

Yes, I was taking it as tautological that that is what you are trying to achieve.