Michael Stone
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827 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Nov 2015
Michael Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So some of those names are George Tinsley, very important former NBA player, owns a lot of franchises in airports, Tampa and Miami.
Another one is Tyoka Jackson, actually who I met, who I played with on the Rams, but I just bumped him to about a year ago.
He's an IHOP guy.
area developer in D.C.
Another guy is, I mean, the group is a huge group of developing, but another guy who actually came to our summit last summer and opened up a franchise after the summit, or a second franchise after the summit, is Andrew Crowell.
He's a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, retired this year.
I'm not even sure if he's retired yet, but he's not playing this year.
And he just opened up his second Jersey Mike's franchise.
But I'm starting to meet a lot of guys that are, you know, at entry point in the franchise industry and are really, you know, looking to grow fast.
I'm excited
I would say, and I'm learning that as I go.
I would say no.
I would say that in some cases they are enfranchised concepts that have seen the success, but for me they're not as attractive on one level, on the experience level and on the expectation level.
So I think that, you know, looking at the fact that athletes can gain financing because they may have, you know, the war chest to get involved in franchising a little quicker in this kind of economy, that's always an attractive point.
But at the same time, as the franchisor looks at the athlete, I think in many cases they see the star athlete.
When you look at the athlete community, you see the biggest names in the community.
And those guys aren't always the in-store ex-shooters around their business all the time.
Those guys are doing, you know, a lot of different things.
But I would say, you know...
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