No matter who you support or what happens in the primaries you have to give it up to my friend @andrewyang. He’s not rich, famous, a politician, an actor, or connected. He may well be the most successful regular guy who’s ever run. A bright 💡 in a 😒 system. 🙌
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As a startup, it's actually good if they underestimate you. It gives you time and opportunity.
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This is a story about how a 6'1, not overly athletic kid from small town NC became one of the most exciting, popular and legendary HS basketball players I've ever seen, despite getting no recognition from the major rankings and awards. This is the story of @Eliellis25 A thread
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If you are on TV wearing an Overtime shirt at an NBA game, I’ll send you $100 🤑👀⭕️🔥 @overtime DM me the clip
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I can't believe I'm jumping on this train because of how much I have not been a fan of Cuomo re: our subways. But the clear fact is in 10 minutes he's been more honest and presidential than Trump has in four years, and I would take him over Biden 100% #CuomoForPresident
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Two years ago we started @overtime we were “too late” to social media, had no followers and no one cared we existed. Almost exactly two years later thanks the best team ever and our amazing fans we just hit 1 million on IG. Just put your mind to it and get out there and grind.
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When I met Kobe he said: “So you’re from Ardmore.” We joked about Lower Merion and Philly burbs. I mean who does that? Kobe literally the 🐐 and he bothers to look me up before the meeting. There was nothing he wasn’t driven and winning at. He knew how to win at life. Lessons. 😥
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I am the CEO of @overtime. I can tell you that as an entire company we know in our ❤️ that #BlackLivesMatter. Because if you are a “sports fan” and cheer for a player or a team. And you don’t understand why #BlackLivesMatter you need to wake TF up. 🙏🏿 ✊🏾
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Preach! @AndrewYang speaks out!
Replying to @AndrewYang
They’ve omitted me from their graphics 12+ times, called me John Yang on air, and given me a fraction of the speaking time over 2 debates despite my polling higher than other candidates on stage. At some point you have to call it.
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Wild stat: 6% of active NBA players are investors in Overtime.
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3 years ago this month I left @Endeavor to launch @Overtime. 3 years later - 25 series, more than most tv networks, one BILLION video views a month, coverage of athletes at HS, college and Pro level, esports, global reach and the #1 engagement in sports. Big dream. Great team
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If you have a candidate who has no full time job, trapped at home and no digital strategy... why wouldn't you ask @AndrewYang to run his digital strategy. The proof is there and the old playbook isn't working... and that's how you win.
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2023 OTE -->NBA pipeline looking good!
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Florida, Texas, NC, Wisconsin and other states actively suppressing student voters because they are overwhelmingly more liberal. We can add generational warfare to the class and race warfare practiced by the Republican Party nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/vo…
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I just received this email from @AndrewYang - it's a strong position and one every candidate should take if they are serious about change.
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In just two years @Overtime went from primarily a media platform to launching our own IP and sports leagues. Today I’m proud to announce that our three leagues now combine for over 10MM followers. An incredible achievement by an incredible team. 🙏🏈🏀🥊
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The biggest madness this March is making over 1,000 young men show up for their jobs in a pandemic and then telling them to work for free.
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I don’t usually tweet a lot about myself but this cover means a lot to me as I graduated with no job and no direction and now 34 years later here we are!
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Someone on my team came up to me last night and said: “they tried to block us from gyms, tell us not to film, poach our employees, copy us, outspend us and more… so we just built our OWN.” Yes we did.
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Congrats to Ari and the @Endeavor team on the IPO. You don’t get to build a business and go on a journey to an IPO that wild without being a legend. As proof here’s my favorite email ever from my time at WME. Legend.
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Spent this weekend reading about cable, subscribers and habits. 83 million people pay roughly $9 a month for ESPN, but approximately 43% are not sports fans and don't watch. The legacy bundle provides Disney $3.8 billion a year in revenues for a product that isn't being watched.
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The best thing about zoom interviews is it mostly obscures my infinite hand gestures. Thanks for having me @AndrewYang - always good to catch up!
Now on yangspeaks.com the CEO of @overtime Dan Porter @tfadp talks about what ESPN would look like if it were started today, a different approach to covering sports, paying high school athletes and much more. Thanks Dan!
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Twitter haters: "No one will watch your basketball league" Me: "@overtimeelite Web3 basketball? wagmi" Opening weekend Overtime Elite generated 23 million total views 8.8 million total engagements 🙏🙏🙏 More info 👇
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Some thoughts on @OvertimeElite historic (for us!) deal with @PrimeVideo and @amazon. Here are the bets we made. 1) We bet on ourselves. We self distributed in year 1. We were our own media partner powered by @overtime and we built all our own capabilities in house to go live
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Adam Silver when asked about the new Overtime league.
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Today is 6 years to the day that we incorporated and officially launched a company called @overtime. Almost 50 billion video views, 75 million followers and two leagues later it feels like we are just getting started. Shoutout to our amazing team, investors, believers and fans 🙏
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New @OvertimeElite arena is pretty dope!
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Fuck yeah my guy
Overtime was a video filter app not so many years ago and now they just got two kids drafted from their league in the Top 5
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Happy to announce that @OvertimeElite players are eligible to be nominated for the @McDAAG (McDonalds All American Games). We look forward to a long and collaborative relationship between Overtime and McDonalds.
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5,700,000,000 minutes of @overtime content consumed in 2021. We appreciate you. 🙏🤩. Working hard to keep you entertained in 2022. 🙌
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Fans of @overtime consumed 4,781,382,740 minutes of programming in 2020. How'd we do it? 52 social channels across 6 platforms Over 1 million followers across 6 different verticals: Men's basketball Women's basketball Football Soccer Gaming Lifestyle Looking forward to 2021
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Last week I met with Kobe at his studio. He was warm, engaged and then towards the end of the meeting he stood up and said, “I have to go pick my daughter up,” shook my hand and walked out. What else is there to say....
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10/ @Eliellis25 RESPECT 🫡
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If white football players were kneeling to protest inaction on opioid abuse there would be no NFL owners ruling, no fines. It's not really the kneeling they object to. It's black outrage against the underlying problem of racism and police brutality they are ignoring and silencing
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You know @overtime for our short form content but did you know on Youtube content spanning 8+ minutes, Overtime content earns MORE than TWICE as many views per video as all major competitors, including ESPN, BR, HoH, and Barstool (Tubular, 6/20 - 5/21)
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Today we launch OTX. Overtime moves into boxing. Real fighters. Real storytelling. Athlete empowerment. It’s not HS Sports. It’s the continued evolution of the brand. Thank you. 🥊
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This is the @overtime ice cream truck. Catch us today in NYC. If you think you understand what @overtime is, think 10x bigger. 🍦
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I am scrolling through @overtime tonight on Twitter and it’s amazing. Every great HS Ball player all over the country is featured doing something epic. In 12 months we’ve built s process and tech to scale this like no one ever had. It’s national and epic and I’m super proud.
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Presidential candidates as social networks: Bernie: MySpace Warren: Facebook Yang: Reddit Biden: Record Player Extra credit: Kamala: Spark Notes Pete: McKinsey Alumni Job Board
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There are 22,000 volunteers who have come to NY from out of state to help! Bless you ❤️❤️
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Favorite World Cup shirt!
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This shot of our control room when the game went into Overtime…
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1/ Four years ago today we incorporated and formally launched Overtime, November 16, 2016. Time for a nostalgia thread? 👇
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NBA draft tonight: 3 of top 7 picks didn’t play in college. 3 of the top 8 are international. The game is changing.
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Holy smokes! @overtime named top 50 best small companies to work for in the US! That’s a credit to the people who work here. 💪🏻👊🏽🙌🏿 usatoday.com/story/money/bus…
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Dear @AndrewYang - since we first met ten years ago I’ve loved your big ideas, relentless positivity and your warmth. But damn bro, you dreamed SO BIG this time that I am in AWE. You inspired all of us. Please KEEP DREAMING! We loved taking this journey with you. #yanggang
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He had 51 offers, including some of the NCAA's biggest programs, and he chose Overtime Elite. Beyond exciting! Welcome Jai!
Breaking: 2022 Word of God Christian Academy (NC) forward Jai Smith has signed with Overtime Elite.
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High flying weekend at OTE. I feel like our dunk contest rivals anyone else’s. 🤷‍♂️ 🏀
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This kid figures out that I’m the CEO of @overtime. Finds my personal IG account and then sends me this DM. #different
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I’m gonna miss David Stern so much. Working with him was a real privilege and without him @overtime would not be what it is today, no less the entire NBA. I owe you Commissioner.
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I am extremely proud of our content team this year around @OvertimeElite How's it going? OTE continues to be one of the hottest sports accounts on TikTok with more followers than: Every MLB, NHL, MLS, and college basketball team 26 out of 30 NBA teams 26 out of 32 NFL teams
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Four top 10 NBA draft picks in two years for @OvertimeElite. Speaks for itself 🙏 Amen Thompson Ausar Thompson Alex Sarr Rob Dillingham
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9/ The rankings don't get it. The all american games don't get it. But the vets like @carmeloanthony do.
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So proud of Jaylen. OTE valedictorian. Could have easily gone to any college in the country. He’s following his dream and he’s in the NBA!
The Knicks are signing Overtime Elite’s Jaylen Martin on a two-way NBA contract, per sources.
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1/ @overtime first filmed Eli when he was entering his Freshman year. He had 15,000 followers and was attracting some attention as an undersized shooter. He was his own PR machine and asked us to come film, sending over his daily schedule.
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The RECAP @TeamOvertimeGG @FortniteGame Tournament at @368 thanks to @overtime and @CaseyNeistat
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What we were busy with recently... @overtime
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By my rough estimation @overtime has helped high school athletes we have posted add over 10 million followers in the last three years. We remain the only sports network that tags athletes in videos and sends them video to share. 👀
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We never sleep.
Overtime — which launched the Overtime Elite basketball league last year — is now partnering with free-agent QB Cam Newton on a new 7-on-7 football league called OT7, designed to appeal to Next-Gen and college football fans. League launches in June.
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Overtime in 2K is 🔥
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NEW ALERT! More dunks, touchdowns, nutmegs and Victory Royales. We got the bag! medium.com/@tfadp/whats-next…
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Jared McCain is one of the most impressive young man we’ve ever covered. And whatever you think about his nails and more. I watched him play at OTE and he is a world class shit talker and one of the toughest and hardest players I’ve ever seen play.
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Replying to @TurnerNovak
VC’s only looked at the TAM of burgers which were favored early on only by immigrants from Hamburg. They didn’t understand that the happy meal toy was the original NFT and McDonalds was actually an IP platform disguised as fast food.
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Overtime will take over MSG+ in a bid to put a fresh spin on the traditional NBA broadcast and cater to younger audiences. gofos.co/2XW3CGu
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You can copy us on the outside. But you’ll never be able to copy what’s on the inside.
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Welcome to the first 24 players in the league!
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In response to this question from @heitner, which i get a lot, time for a thread 👇
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There are two kinds of “help” in a startup. 1) You’ve just raised a round. “Let me know how I can help.” This means pay 💰 and they will “help.” 2) You have no money. “Let me know how I can help.” This is actual help. You will never forget it. I always want / want to be #2.
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Very excited about this. Coach Ollie is a real dynamo. Overtime Elite keeps making moves 🙌
ESPN Sources: Former UConn coach and 13-year NBA veteran Kevin Ollie has been hired as head coach and director of player development for the Overtime Elite, a new pro basketball league for top prospects between 16 and 18 years old: es.pn/3s6llc1
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Today is the birthday of a friend and business mentor who left us too soon. Not a week goes by where I’m not sad that I don’t get to ask his advice, debate politics or share a small win with him.
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Nice stat from this article on Tik Tok tldr: we are the biggest 👀
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I just read in the Hollywood Reporter that Bleacher Report does 1.2 billion video views a month. They have 833 employees. Guess what? We do that same number of vide views. But we have less than 100 employees 😎 #shoutoutOT
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1/ Today is the 10 year anniversary of Zynga buying OMGPOP. Crazy to think. So many lives and careers were changed. I went through my camera roll to share some of what I remember.
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When they ask you as CEO who you report to… this is my Board.
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6/ The toughest kid on the court by a mile. An absolute trash talking hustler. Lights out shooter. Impossible to defend. Plays every minute. Born leader. And off the court, @Eliellis25 the nicest, most respectful young man around. Stays 2 hrs after games to take pics w/ fans.
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Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue (Tiger King) wishing @Zionwilliamson a happy birthday is the most 2020 thing I've seen today. Maybe the most cringe, probably the most random, and sometimes the most @overtime ;)
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7/ @Eliellis25 bio is: "Nobody cares. Work harder." And he lives it. Hundreds of thousands of fans watch his games at @OvertimeElite and want to be like him. And yet respect still eludes him.
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7 years ago today...
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I basically feel like the election results are in a white Ford bronco and the whole country is watching the live feed...
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Go listen! I was fortunate to be in the @recode podcast with the hardest working man in tech @pkafka and we covered lot of interesting topics: sports / gaming / startups. Subscribe too for other 🔥 content. recode.net/2019/3/7/18253839…
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Of the 435,000 views of OTE @OvertimeElite first game, 1 in every 6 viewers watched the FULL 50 minutes of the game in its entirety. Different camera angles, commentary and more. That's pretty cool. (We upload full games to be watched on demand instead of live streaming them)
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Boss knowledge from @Slasher
how to internet effectively in 2020 tik tok is oc, twitter is for posting tik toks, facebook is for ig photos, instagram is for tweet screenshots, youtube is for watching tv, twitch is for watching youtube, reddit is for 4chan memes, and half the media online are reddit reposts
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All the feels from last night
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Every sports media company is churning out press releases and articles about tik tok. Only one company, @overtime, is actually on the list of top ten tik tok sports moments of 2019. They do the press, we reach the fans.
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I can’t believe that it was 10 years ago that @bijan invested in OMGPOP and now we are younger and wiser and back at it again 💪🏻❤️🏀! Couldn’t be happier! bijansabet.com/2019/02/14/sp…
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1/ The reason people are gleefully trashing Quibi on Twitter isn't because they are cold hearted. It's because of the massive arrogance of Katzenberg:
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As seen on the NBA website: let’s go fam!
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I think sometimes because of the age of some of our players it feels like our league @OvertimeElite can’t be that big. Just did numbers recap for the first two years. 3 billion views 1 billion minutes watched 600MM engagements 5.6MM followers It’s big. Plus…
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WFH works because we spent time working face to face in an office. WFH is an offshoot of strong interpersonal relationships, non verbal communication & camaraderie from working together live. We are coasting off this now. WFH as new normal to disrupt fails to account for this
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Competitors can copy you, dismiss you, hire your people, block you and badmouth you. But once you’ve left the ground they can not catch you.
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