Operations with Sean Lane

Make Operations Your Startup’s Incubator with LeagueSide’s Zubin Teherani

Apr 22, 2022

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Operations at League Side served as a catch-all for different functions before transitioning to specialized departments based on the system breaking and indicating the need for focused ownership and expertise.

League Side focused on improving the UI/UX of operations by simplifying complex systems, avoiding reliance on institutional knowledge, and ensuring internal users could easily understand and navigate the operations workflow.

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Evolution of Operations at League Side

Operations at League Side initially served as a catch-all for different functions within the company. It was responsible for STR, people ops, marketing, and more. Over time, they began to specialize and build specific departments around the general skills of the ops team. The transition from generalist to specialist usually happened when the system started breaking, indicating the need for more focused ownership and expertise.

The Evolution of Operations in Youth Sports Organizations

02:26

Are You Prioritizing in Ops?

01:51

The U I and U X in Operations

03:40

Introduction

2min

How Do You Know When It's Time to Spin Off Your People?

2min

Having an Ops Team Build the Fundamental Building Blocks?

2min

Leapside - The Incubator for the Corps Functions

3min

The U I and U X in Operations

4min

Are You Prioritizing in Ops?

2min

The Evolution of Operations in Youth Sports Organizations

2min

Is That What You're Doing?

2min

The Least Favorite Part About Working in Ops?

3min

We can get caught up sometimes in what the most ideal and advanced versions of an Operations team can look like.

It can be easy to forget the early days of start-ups when an Operations team can be responsible for just about anything and everything that doesn’t yet have a home.

That’s exactly what happened with our guest, Zubin Teherani. Zubin is the Co-Founder and COO of LeagueSide, a company that makes youth sports sponsorships easy by bringing together over 16,000 youth sports leagues with big brands.

Zubin and his team have used Operations as an incubator for every core function in the company. In our conversation, we explore how and why they used Ops as a catch all, we talk about the UI/UX of Operations, and why Zubin’s stint outside of Operations was what unlocked a whole new way of doing things inside Operations.

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Operations with Sean Lane

Make Operations Your Startup’s Incubator with LeagueSide’s Zubin Teherani

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Evolution of Operations at League Side

UI/UX of Operations

Building Systems with Software Principles

The Evolution of Operations in Youth Sports Organizations

Are You Prioritizing in Ops?

The U I and U X in Operations

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts