Excellent Leadership Podcast

This is the Excellent Leadership Podcast! Chad Biagini (President, Excel Search & Advisory) & Mark Mayleben (Partner, Excel Search & Advisory) are here with Ryan Spoon (President, Yahoo Media Group) to discuss:

Ryan Spoon Intro (0:02)

7 Question Blitz (1:48)

What swimming at Duke taught him about work ethic & Perfectly measured progress (7:10)

What the President of Yahoo Media Group does & Running Sports, Finance and video (10:48)

Building BeRecruited at Duke & What eBay taught him (12:05)

Dogpatch Labs and Instagram & What separates the founders who make it (18:36)

Hiring for curiosity & Why you have to be your best user (22:24)

Walking into ESPN with 28 mobile apps & Having product strategy (26:18)

Recruiting to Bristol & Selling the fingerprint, not the location (28:27)

Getting early wins on the board & Being the change nobody asked for (29:41)

Leaving ESPN for BetMGM & The NFT era (33:00)

Why Yahoo? & Product market fit at the internet's 5th biggest site (38:34)

Fantasy Sports in its 29th year & College Fantasy Football introduced (41:54)

Working out the seats before the people & Spotting who's ready to be unleashed (44:02)

The 10X engineer & Why your best IC shouldn't always become the boss (50:29)

Picking the stage of company & Not the vertical (52:50)

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This is the Excellent Leadership Podcast! Chad Biagini (President, Excel Search & Advisory) and Mark Mayleben Chad Biagini (Partner, Excel Search & Advisory) are here with Jeb Terry (President & CEO @cosm) to discuss:

Excel Search & Advisory Intro (0:00)

Jeb Terry Intro (0:25)

7 Question Blitz (1:56)

The origin story of COSM & Acquiring the world's largest planetarium company (12:25)

Building the immersive production pipeline & Producing 400+ live events a year (17:36)

The conviction to build & Calling the NFL every year for 5 years (20:50)

Landing the NBA as the first major partner & Closing a deal in week 3 of COVID (24:43)

A million no's for one yes & Owning it when the feed goes black (27:38)

Hiring for the qualitative & The good person filter (34:17)

"Our technology will wow, our hospitality will win" & Building a vertically integrated venue (39:26)

Partnering with real estate developers & Giving fans home games every day (44:05)

Expanding into cinema & Finding fans through virality (46:56)

The 3 jobs of a CEO & Being available for his team (53:15)

The will to win & What he carried over from the NFL (56:26)

Life after football & Getting yourself in the room (1:01:51)

What's next for COSM & Where the name came from (1:06:00)

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This is the Excellent Leadership Podcast! Chad Biagini (President, Excel Search & Advisory) and Mark Mayleben are here with Steve Koonin (President & CEO @atlhawks & State Farm Arena) to discuss:

Excel Search & Advisory Intro (0:00)

Steve Koonin Intro (0:22)

The Hawks' in-house podcast studio & How the CEO role reinvents itself over time (1:31)

Stepping into an ownership controversy five weeks into the job & Building Atlanta's version of LA Live (5:34)

What turned the community around & Building trust and alignment with owner Tony Ressler (11:16)

"Oysters make pearls": Fighting complacency & Magic City Night's 11.7 billion impressions (16:21)

Creating a culture where people take big risks & Why outsiders succeed as sports CEOs (22:30)

Building the executive team & Running end-of-season "autopsies" instead of reviews (29:28)

The global future of the NBA & Why he reads 4–5 hours a day (35:38)

7 Question Blitz (44:13)

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This is the Excellent Leadership Podcast! Chad Biagini (President, Excel Search & Advisory) & Chris Hoppe (Partner, Excel Search & Advisory) are here with Erick Harper (Director of Athletics @unlv) to discuss:

Intro (:02)

Erick Harper Intro (:24)

A memory that sticks out at UNLV & What he saw in taking this role (1:45)

Advice to a rising leader & The importance of communication with higher ups (6:26)

The importance of of mentoring student athletes & Walk Around Time (11:20)

Building the culture of UNLV vs. Empathy within the organization (15:23)

Tying in the city of Las Vegas & Leaning to the difference of the product (22:11)

Behind the scenes of a head coaching search & Hiring Dan Mullen (27:56)

Never compromising your values & Financial literacy for athletes in the NIL era (32:04)

Adapting to address the transfer portal & Not being a micromanager (37:44)

Where UNLV is going to be in 5 years & 7 Question Blitz (40:30)

7 Question Blitz (57:40)

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This is the Excellent Leadership Podcast! Chad Biagini (President, Excel Search & Advisory) is here with Greg Beadles (President & CEO @atlantafalcons) to discuss:

Excel Seach & Advisory Intro (:02)

Greg Beadles Intro (:25)

What the role of CEO in the NFL really is & Where he spends most of his time in business (1:44)

Hiring for a coach or GM & The role that Matt Ryan is filling for the team now (4:54)

Hiring for core values & Starting out as an intern, becoming CFO to President/CEO of The Falcons (8:31)

The First 30-60 Days of becoming President/CEO & Going through reorginization on the business side (17:45)

Planning with Owner Arthur Blank & What he has learned from him in business (25:21)

The business growth in the NFL & Playing in International games every season (33:04)

The growth of flag football & The business of Mercedes-Benz Stadium (37:56)

Co-Founding a school & Staying sharp and grounded (44:27)

7 Question Blitz (49:58)

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