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E1153: Dave Portnoy on the business of Barstool, talent acquisition, Call Her Daddy controversy & more

This Week in Startups

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The Secret to Finding Emerging Talent

Comedian Dave Chappell says his generation didn't go to college. He believes the next generation will not get a job because of their lack of education. His goal is for everyone who goes to college to be able to find work, he says. The comedian also thinks that capitalism has never been more vibrant....

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Speaker 2
Ya. There's a very weird, i think a lot of this has to do et of you agree. But our generation, i dont if youen, did you go to college? I did. Whered'd
Speaker 1
you go? Michigan
Speaker 2
o. K, did you go, like, horribly into debt?
Speaker 1
No, ti's lucky. I was lucky enough my parents helped me with the education. See,
Speaker 2
i think this next generation, they all thought, you' go to college, you get a hundred thousand dollar year job, so bucket. I'll take out a hundred thousand in loans, or two hundred thousand in loans. Now they've got some liberal arts degree, they can't get a job, wher they drop for forty grand and they're like, i'll get the systems rigged. Everything needs to be free. Capitalism is broken. When, in fact, capitalism has never been more vibrant. Right
Speaker 1
in the union thingan i always said, its a, i'm not fundamentally opposed to unions. I think there'se some industries that one hundred per cent need unions. I don't think we're onteb, so, you know, i'd have, i'd have union people getting very mad at me, jobs and industries like, you ver fucking coal miner. Yea, you probably menlit unions and things like that. And there's some that do. We don't wear talent business. The talent rises and gets paid n and they hold us hostage of anything.
Speaker 2
What is the secret, youd, think, to finding emerging talent, and why you've been so good at it? Well, we a, o git a, nurturing is at the identify, you know, yes, combu, we had a big advantage
Speaker 1
in t beginning, because i would hire anybody. I don't care what your decree was. I don't care if you went to college. I don't care. Anything like our people did not have, you know, network or comedy backrounds, but nobody would hire you if you didn't i would. So i had people that nobody that like o tisgos super funny, but i didn't meat no one else would give him a shot. I would. I. And then i always said when churnon did the deal, my goal is that every college graduate who thinks it very funny, or not even a college graduate, but everyone who used to apply to saturnate lives, or maybe like, ah, in the old days, atronomy. What's theo, what was that? Harvard magazine. National lampoon.

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