Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events Podcast
The Three Things I've Learned in sports, tech and live events is the podcast for entrepreneurs in software as a service, technology, sports business and sponsorships professionals.
My name is Tony Knopp and I've been working in Saas, tech, sports and live events for just over 20 years now where I've been surrounded by super impressive people who have taught us quite a bit and invested in us as we make mistakes and iterate in tech, sports and live events.
Each week, we share what we learned either this week or from our twenty years at the Dodgers, LA Kings, AEG, StubHub's very early days and here at TicketManager where we've exited multiple businesses.
We hope you enjoy our insights and those of our guests!
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 156
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Three Things: Competition, Characteristics of the best teammates, Faith in and Faith Out
Three Things I Learned in SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events
1) You can compete without being enemies.
Competition is a part of life. If would be great if there was enough for everyone to be wildl…
00:04:12 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
The Top Ten Events I've Been To In 20+ Years In The Sports Game
Three Things I Learned in SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events
Let's do a fun one this week:
The top sporting events I've been to as a result of my job.
1. The Greatest Game Ever Played: USC - Texa…
00:15:00 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
Three Things I Learned Spending a Week at The PLAYERS
What I learned spending a week in Florida at The Players Championship, the de facto Super Bowl of golf.
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Fri 22 Mar 2024
Three Things I Learned in SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events
This week we discuss:
- Vivid Seats earnings call
- Cops, Firefighters, Judges, and Entrepreneurs
- Stand up for yourself, even against Tommy Lasorda
00:05:02 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
What I've Learned About Cheating In Business and Life
Cheating is inevitable in our careers and lives.
What I've learned about cheating alongside a number of stories.
00:07:23 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Four Things I've Learned About Leadership in 16 Years as a CEO
Nearly everyone wants to be a leader.
We ask the same 11 questions in every final interview with our prospective teammates. When we ask where people think they want to be in ten years, nearly all ca…
00:05:39 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Super Bowl Week Two: Three Things I Learned From The First Las Vegas Super Bowl
Three Things I Learned in SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events
Super Bowl Edition: Week 2
Las Vegas' debut as a Super Bowl host was a wild success. It was easy to get around, there was an abundance of…
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Fri 16 Feb 2024
Super Bowl Week One: Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events
What I've learned about working the Super Bowl over the years - part one
00:02:50 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events 1-19-24
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events:
On layoffs, cuts, and competition
1. Surviving an attacking bear is a lot different than advancing a career.
Growing up playing sports…
00:05:33 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Three Things I Learned in SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events 1/12/24
This week's learnings include:
- Wisdom from a very successful friend on selling a business
- Why Stanford's loss is our gain as employers
- The blessing of traveling on a shoestring budget for ma…
00:04:11 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Aloha! The First Things Things of 2024
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events:
1. Do the thing at the start of the year, season, or quarter, not at the end.
We started TicketManager on Sept 27, 2007. End of a quar…
00:04:22 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
What We Can Learn About Business From Netflix's "Wrestlers" Documentary Series
46. "Wrestlers" - The Netflix Documentary on Al Snow's Ohio Valley Wrestling could be taught as a full semester course in business school. The show chronicles the plight of a small wrestling business…
00:04:26 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
What I Learned Playing College Sports
- What I learned in business from playing sports in college.
I played volleyball at USC. Not exactly the big time - but a fun time and the top of the mountain (at the time) for a small sport.*
What was…
00:06:34 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
How To Be Left Alone At Work: The Ultimate Luxury
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Be great and get left alone. A personal preference here but: I like being left alone to do my job. Now don't get me wrong, I love learning…
00:05:04 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events 10.27.23
This week we explore:
- The sports business market and some of the current struggles
- The sponsorship have and have nots
- Bringing your whole fan to work
00:04:28 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events 10.6.23
This week on the Three Things I discuss:
1) How much the curve has dropped for an enterprise business to be successful in 2023
2) What changing a job title did to our applicants and why it wasn't a…
00:05:14 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech, & Live Events 9.29.23 - How a rescinded offer changed the way we team build
How having an offer pulled on me twenty years ago changed the way we team build
00:04:41 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events 9.22.23
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events:
1. There's no food at the pantry
2. Our career and "La Catedral"
3. A great quote
00:02:28 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events 9.15.23
Insider stories of LeBron's greatest game and how winning an argument would have sunk our business
00:03:58 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events: US Open Week and Saastr
Spent the week at the US Open and got inundated by content from the annual cloud meet-up at Saastr in the Bay Area.
What I learned in a busy week in sports and SaaS!
00:03:52 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
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