ADV 378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conversion Van, Jujutsu, Netflix
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Oversees sales operations, customer support and live production of all flosports events. Started the company out of a van with brother martin and madhu venkatesan. Filled a need in the marketplace by providing high quality live broadcasts and original content by athletes, for athletes. Success in 2007 when posted video of first american to break the hour barrier in the half-marathon. Outside of flosports, mark is on board of texchange, a company promoting entrepreneurship for technology and life sciences startups in texas. Award winning athlete originally from chicago, and lives with wife zaza in austin. Flosports; grow the sport: the events, the athletes, and the fans. Brother martin wrestled, the motivation to start covering wrestling first. Decided to start a business in 2006, ,000 from a friend. Youtube hadn"t started, saw video on a website. Found a conversion van in dallas, broke down halfway back to austin. Video of ryan hall finishing the half-marathon in less than an hour.