Sam Koppelman

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1,054 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 4 Sep

Sam Koppelman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Halo, Ballmer's Bowl and a New Crisis in the Super-System: Kawhi-Gate, Part XIII · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

And the Intuit Dome marked that bottom.

That was the deal that really helped kickstart Daktronics and turn things around for them.

Look, I don't fully understand the difference between correlation and causation, but maybe it was a really good decision to pay Kawhi Leonard some money, or at the very least a good decision to take a payment from Steve Ballmer and build the Intuit Dome.

Because the Intuit Dome really did help save Daktronics.

As far as I'm concerned, that might have been the greatest endorsement deal of all time.

I always start by looking for a company's number.

In this case, Dektronix only had one number on its website, like the sort of sleepy 60-year-old company that it is.

I called up the number, and I was on with customer service.

For sales assistance for new display systems, press 1.

And then I pressed zero and I pressed one and I pressed three and I pressed all the buttons.

And I couldn't find a human being to speak to.

But I did find a part of Daktronics' website that was for media inquiries.

So I submitted a request for comment.

And thankfully, this worked.

I got an email from someone who seemed to be a PR person, a marketing person.

at Daktronics, who asked me to share more details on the story.

I then sent him my number.

This is on July 23rd.

He then writes back to say, you know what?

I'm not going to call you, but let me introduce you to our VP.

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