Zak Brown

And so I remember that being an early moment of like, hey, I own a piece of the company.

I may have started the company, but it's not just my company anymore.

But that was a good experience.

I didn't have a problem with it.

And then...

When I sold the whole company to Chime CSM, I think at that point I was ready.

I don't think I would have been ready for a Chime CSM full acquisition in 2008.

I think I benefited from 2008 and over that five-year period.

gradually becoming more and more disconnected, not from running the business, but from feeling like I own the business.

So when I sold 100% of it, it wasn't a culture shock like I think it would have been had I done that in 2008.

And then ultimately it felt like a job.

They put me in as group CEO.

I was working on other sports, most of which I don't have a passion for.

And I was ready to get out of there only because I was doing things that I wasn't passionate about.

Cricket, rugby, Olympics, football, with all due respect.

You know, I didn't grow up around those sports.

So I think the sports I love, motor racing, golf, baseball, ice hockey, tennis, are the sports I grew up playing.

So what I've been able to do is directly correlate if I played it and I grew up watching it.

Then I have a passion for it.

Soccer slash football wasn't a thing in America.