#54: Courtney Jeffries - CEO, VRTL | Virtual Menus for Teams | Understanding Sports Fan Engagement | Business of Live Entertainment | Overview of Sports x AI, Web3, AR/VR

Before jumping into the founder seat, Courtney Jeffries worked for the Oakland Raiders, MSG, and was the Chief Operating Officer of Satisfi Labs. 

VRTL, Virtual, was previously known as Virtual Tables and participated in Techstars, Minnesota Twins program.  

They are the first virtual fan engagement platform that delivers a live autograph experience combining both streaming and video chat functionality. 

VRTL also have segmentation capabilities to scale the event to different tiers of fans, and full production support equipped with queue management and event execution.

Chapters:

(01:15) Rebranding to VRTL (from Virtual Tables)

(03:40) Idea for founding VRTL 

(05:40) Web3’s impact 

(06:35) Overview of VRTL 

(10:25) What is a fan? Fan engagement?

(14:25) Business model overview

(18:35) NIL thoughts 

(21:00) AR/VR integrations

(24:10) Sports x AI collision 

(26:25) Community + trends to watch

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Courtney Jeffries:

Website: https://www.vrtl.live/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-jeffries-8b53571a/

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