Angel Invest Boston Justin Real, Founder and CEO, Realplay: Sports Video Reinvented
Jan 8, 2020
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Making the capture of high school sports video easy and affordable is the mission of Realplay. Founder Justin Real explains the business and his motivations to get into it. Fun and insightful conversation with an energetic and focused founder.
Highlights include:
- Shoutout to Podcast Listener and Walnut Member Erik Bullen for Suggesting Justin Real as a Guest
- Justin Real Bio
- What Realplay Does
- “Getting the video up until now was incredibly labor intensive and cost prohibitive… It limited … entry into the world of sports … the ability to use it to gain advantages and opportunities and education and professionally”.
- The Realplay Founding Story
- “… the problem with the business is not so much that the demand wasn't there or that the market wasn't vibrant, the volume was too high”.
- Realplay’s AI Identifies Players, Understands Their Actions and Edits to Put Relevant Content Together: “Every Player, Every Play”
- The Competition to Realplay’s Business
- Realplay and WePlayed: Compare & Contrast
- The Realplay Team Is Growing
- Thoughts About Athletic Founders Such as Bryanne Leeming, Adam Martel and Justin Real
- Justin Real’s Analogy of Startups as Baseball:” you fail 7 out of 10 times, you're going to go to the Hall of Fame”.
- Investors Undervalue the Social and Economic Impact of Sports
- Coaching Has Gotten Much More Effective: “…you're seeing 12, 13-year-olds looking like Olympians…”
- Unlike in the Past, Athletes Now Have to Be in their Training Regimen Year-Round: Tom Brady
- This Dedication and Focus Has Changed Sports, Massively Raising Performance Standards
- Sal Daher Talks About Portfolio Company Vedanta Biosciences – Pitch for His Investment Syndicates
- Justin Real on How Realplay Is Being Received by Coaches and Players
- “And the bestselling point that we have to those parents are when we see them, we tell them put their phone in their pocket. You're there to watch the game and you're there to watch your kid play”.
- Realplay’s Go to Market Approach
- 2020 Forecasts
- How Justin’s Family Life Shaped His Entrepreneurship
- Justin Real’s Parting Advice
- “I listened to your podcast way at the early days of Realplay and it inspired me to keep going and reach out to guys like Christopher in Launchpad You give us a path”.