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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

And so as much as I think Liberty picked it up at the right moment, because, you know, really Bernie made the sport...

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

Too big for any one person.

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

So the timing's great because it needed an infrastructure and a liberty to take it to the next level.

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

So it would have never got to where it was, but he almost made it too big for any one person, even though he was King Kong.

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

It took a little bit of time to get used to.

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

I'm fortunate it wasn't by design.

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

The first time I sold, I sold 70% of the company to a private equity group, Spire Capital Credit Suisse, and they were awesome.

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

And they helped me run the business.

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

They taught me a lot.

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

They gave me kind of a formal business education, but they let me run with it.

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

I remember an early incident, which was kind of like, hey, you don't own this company anymore.

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

I was traveling and we had some travel cases and a bag got lost or something.

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

I just went and grabbed one out of the back.

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

And then on my expense report, I owed for the bag.

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

And I was like...

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

You charged me for a bag?

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

And they're like, dude, it's not your bag.

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

You own 30% of the bag.

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

You don't own 100% of the bag.

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

And I was like, it's a fair point.