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Zak Brown

πŸ‘€ Speaker
942 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

I suppose what it does on the tin, yeah.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And actually, the whole reason I didn't want to have what it does on the tin is in sponsorship.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

I'm not sure this worked or didn't work, but I wanted people to be, what's this about?

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

If it said on the tin, this is me calling you about sponsorship, then my view was actually people might already think they know the answer to that and not take your call.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

So actually, the reason I came up with Just Marketing was to have people like, what's...

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

that about and see if that could break through another door or two as opposed to, you know, Zach Motorsports sponsorship and then people are like, oh, well, no, this guy's fine.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

Yeah, so that was my brand case study.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

jmi and your business how instrumental was he i don't think i'd be where i am today without uh john hogan and i and i think i can say that about quite a quite a few people have been uh uh instrumental in in my career but no one kind of more so than than john hogan he was uh mr marble uh looking at the emerson car there i mean the photos were uh amazing with him and emerson and james hunt and

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And so he was the biggest guy in sponsorship in Formula One forever.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And how it came about was I was interviewing someone for a PR role, and he was down as a reference.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

I was going to say witness.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

That was later on.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

As a reference.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And I thought, ooh, I want to talk to this guy.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

I know who he is.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And so called.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And it was a bit of a bait and switch.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

The intention of the call was actually to kind of, oh, this is an opportunity to get to know John Hogan.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And we hit it off right away.

The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Business in conversation with McLaren's Zak Brown

And he's the one that was responsible for walking me in the front door to Bernie.