#158: John Stewart - CEO, Co-Founder Fastbreak AI | Transforming Sports Scheduling from Top to Bottom

Recently receiving investment from the NBA, NHL, and Profluence Capital, John Stewart is transforming sports at Fastbreak AI. 

Fastbreak AI brings the power of world-class, sports scheduling optimization featuring a robust and intuitive user experience for league setup, defining scheduling goals, metric reporting, schedule modification, and distribution.

John Stewart sold his last company, MapAnything, to Salesforce in 2019. 

Chapters:

(00:40) Building & exiting MapAnything

(04:00) Opportunity John saw in sports

(07:00) Fastbreak AI scheduling 

(10:20) Downstream into youth sports

(12:00) Next products 

(15:30) Advice on fundraising

(17:40) Bootstrapping vs venture capital 

(20:40) Managing raised capital 

(22:50) Having mainly engineers

(25:15) Macro trends in sports to watch

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Fastbreak AI:

Website: https://fastbreak.ai/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-stewart-3528a38/

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Andrew Petcash:

🏠 Website: https://profluence.com

🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/

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