A Conversation with The Sports Club Founders

In this episode, the yWhales team speaks with Giovanna D'esposito and Emanuele Carotti, Founders of The Sports Club, a sports community in Web3. The Sports Club is home of all sports lovers with the mission to create connections through sports. The vision of The Sports Club is to add excitement to all web3 Sports lovers through sports games and experiences that are managed by The Sports Club and other premium DAOs in a decentralized way. Giovanna and Emanuele discuss how they came up with the concept of The Sports Club and how it works. 

 

About Guests

Giovanna D'Esposito was born in the Sorrento area, in Southern Italy. She holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD, France. During her ~30 years of professional experience, she held several corporate and consulting roles in strategy, business development and general management. She led the first international expansion of two major online gambling companies, Paddy Power and Sky Bet, starting and growing their Italian businesses to over $300m in turnover. Since 2019 she has managed the Southern Europe region for Uber Technologies, overseeing ~$1bn in revenues, and just made the jump to a full-time Web3 career. Her current project is The Sports Club, co-founded with former colleagues from her online sports betting days. She is an advisor to digital start-ups and sits on several Boards as a non-executive director.

Emanuele Carotti is General Manager of a hospitality marketplace and Chief Marketing Officer with 10+ years experience in CRM, digital acquisition, and management of multi-million marketing budgets. He successfully launched two online sports betting brands. He operates in fast-paced environments, with a track record of increasing accountability and team management responsibilities.

 

You’ll learn about:

• The Sports Club and its mission to become the home for all sports lovers
• The story behind the concept
• How the technology and business aspect works
• Their two-tier NFT collection
• The projects they’re currently working on

 

Resources: 

Connect with Giovanna D'esposito: LinkedIn 

Connect with Emanuele Carotti: LinkedIn

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

The Sports Club: Website | Twitter | Litepaper | Discord

 

Timestamps

[02:25] Giovanna’s Background 

[04:49] Integration into the web3 world

[09:56] Emanuele’s background

[13:54] How The Sports Club works

[24:25] Other examples of TSC business strategy

[26:58]  Testing the idea with community and DAOs

[30:48]  Future plans

[32:46] Adoption by mainstream industry

[37:46] Early builders of giant upcoming market

[38:44] The business behind The Sports Club

[42:32] The roadmap

[48:25] Experience with DAOs and community role

[51:39] How concept of TSC started

[53:09] Alpha Drop

[01:00:53] How to contact Giovanna and Emanuele

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.