The Compounding Effect: Start Times, Districts, and the AI Land Grab

Welcome to The Roar Podcast. I'm Bryce Twain. I'm Adam Grossman.

And I'm Caroline Balvardi.

It's good to see you all. How's everybody been? Doing well. How are you? Things have been good. We've gotten things rolling. There's some great episodes out of late, obviously, with changing the branding and all of the great stuff that's going on. Having Caroline as a host, it's been really cool to see some of the episodes that you two have put together, some great interviews. We were talking before we started recording about Adam's most recent episode with George Berrios, which was excellent. Some of the great work that Caroline has done of late.

It's been really cool to see the evolution of the podcast. It's been great to have Caroline on. highly recommend the episode with the industry CEO, Everett, who obviously now I'm on a first name basis with having spoken to him. So, but I think he was really excellent. And I think it was a really good summary of where the podcast is going, right? We're looking at things outside of sports, looking at how business leaders who are in sports, but also looking at topics that are, we'll call it, I can write a term sports adjacent. I think I did it in Everett did a really good job of highlighting some of those topics and the community topics that Caroline has built her career on and still continues to work on at Search.

It's one of the things that's to me the most actually around what we've done these episodes of late is the community aspect of it. Talking about how especially sports anchor mixed use developments and all that's been built around those. People don't necessarily always think of the community aspect of them and they really are. The mall has gone the way of the dodo and there's many places that we don't gather anymore. But these can really be interesting gathering places. And Carolyn, you've done an amazing job of talking about that community throughout those interviews.

Thank you. I love to hear all that and really appreciate it because that's why I joined this work and bringing that closer and just on the community impact side. And of course, sports is always rooted in community and a big part of community, but how do you get it on a more concrete level and talking about, and when we talk about mixed use sports and entertainment districts, getting into a little bit more of the detail of what does that actually mean? And there's always lots of opinions and the way that these affect people. And I think adding that LEND, but I also love the LENDistry was super excited to have Everett on and talking through it from a business sense too and helping different types of stakeholders understand because there's so many people involved from the mixed use side and also across sports. There's just so many different types of work too. And so I think that's cool that we're expanding. Obviously, data is super important and that's a big focus of the podcast. But adding these other elements to it, how does that tie into all these different ways that you can work in sports and all those different elements and all the different stakeholders involved? Yes, very excited to be with you guys and I'm learning how to be a podcaster.