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David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity

Episode 303 Published 2 years, 9 months ago
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This sponsored insight features David Abrams, Founding Partner of Velocity Capital Management. Velocity is a newly formed firm that focuses on investing with founders to build best-in-class sports, media, and entertainment companies.

Our conversation covers David's background, long experience in distressed investing on Wall Street and at Apollo, and personal investments in sports-related businesses that led to serving at CIO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment. We then turn to the formation of Velocity, the firm's focus, deal sourcing, diligence process, value-added ownership, and example of its investment in the X-Games.


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