I always said to my wife you were 10 11 years old this kid is not gonna work for
anybody you don't get a good employee who is
questioning every single thing that the boss tells him to do before Dave Portnoy
would substitute day trading for sports gambling during the Kovan pandemic and
lose over six hundred forty seven thousand dollars in the process letting
the entire world know as a cautionary tale three minutes before this thing
clicks open I'm down a million dollars
before Dave Portnoy would embark upon his journey to review a slice of pizza
every day on his one byte app one byte ever knows the rules very doughy I can
tell we already got a very doughy pizza for the record I'm a huge pizza review
fan one bite everybody knows the rules I'm one byte avenues rules before Dave
Portnoy would agree to sell his company barstool sports to Penn National Gaming
a regional gambling operator for an eye-popping 450 million dollars
Dave poor noise an American sports media figure and internet entrepreneur who
worked his way out of a place I kid you not called Swampscott Massachusetts from
there he became the CEO of one of those popular sports content sites of the
world barstool sports making himself worth an estimated 100 million dollars
in the process now II don't know too much about Swampscott but I'm willing to
bet that most people born and raised here well they didn't imagine themselves
ever accomplishing the feat like that but from the very beginning well Dave
Portnoy he was a different kind of person someone willing to gamble big on
success and despite it all succeed no on the side Dave he goes by the title of El
Presidente and his mix of snarky sports coverage and attractive women well it's
been described as a mixture between ESPN and girls gone wild a combination that's
gone over like gangbusters to say the least
now whether he's teaching his viewers how to gamble or engaging in a war of
words with people like Roger Goodell well Dave is fearless in his content and
he never is willing to pull punches oukitel out and we knew what was going
to happen you have cowards you have magnet cowards
and then a barrage of Goodell let me win it and come up with oh you
did the research I mean you don't do the research problem you got a file on me
the size and I people like Oh Roger Goodell will will play ball it'll like
make himself look good I've told everybody Roger Goodell has no
self-awareness no sense of humor doesn't know how to deal with the brain like
this so I've been a former teenage baseball player find himself at the top
of the digital sports Empire well that's what I'm here today to tell you all
about what's going on guys it's boy Michael Cretu back at it again with a
brand new video this one a Dave Portnoy of barstool sports now you guys have
actually been asking for this video for a long time now and it looks like they
beat me to the punch with an official duck on the barstool channel I'll leave
a link to that video down below how about a follow-up video on the girls
have call her daddy or is that a where they now for one of them it's a little
confusing but we can follow that up with something on that let me know if that's
what you want to see in the cup ooh how about a vs. on the two girls uh let's
get into this video I be sure to subscribe and hit that Bell boom Dave
Portnoy was born on March 22nd 1997 to Linda and Michael Portnoy now when dave
was six months old well his parents they moved him to Swampscott Massachusetts
where he would spend his entire childhood grew up in Swampscott so North
Shore of Massachusetts no class upbringing this is not Lynn it's not
Marblehead Marblehead would say the only reason God
created swamps go is to keep the winners out of Marblehead so is a very
middle-class town typical town North Shore town the attended Swampscott High
School and he's always been deeply invested in athletics especially
baseball football deep to right field way back it's out of here a homerun for
David Portnoy he got all of that one somebody once said to me that their
friend came over told a friend that they just saw the greatest football player
they ever saw
knew he had a huge group of friends as a youngster and they would all come over
to hang out in his basement and Dave Lee had a very interesting way of dealing
with those kids who were well let's just say gassy if you farted in his basement
you were thrown in the egg he liked this egg I referred
we always thought about that but everyone else is like all right you know
I'm gonna take my punishment it's like you know I I got fine I got fine for
farting and I'm gonna go and he would like enforcing Dave's primary sport
growing up as a teenager was baseball and when he was a sophomore in 93 well
his school they actually won the national title and baby a five hit one
run game thrown by Kevin Rogers swamps kid has won the state championship in
Division three and the pot we hope nobody gets through it up there despite
having a promising career as a ballplayer well Dave he didn't continue
forward with the sport after suffering a shoulder injury
now then his sister she introduced him to the University of Michigan campus
where he decided to attend school now first he was accepted into the nursing
program but once there well he switched majors and got his degree in education
despite having earned this diploma well he knew he was never gonna actually use
it a student teaching I hated I did be up early I think it was almost my last
semester I was basically working like a high school chefs I had to be up super
early so no I hate I know I knew I was never gonna be teaching well University
soon found himself getting into sports gambling where he started at the tracks
in Kentucky Derby was a running and they were down at the field and he'd been
looking at it at the horse I think the voice was smadi Jones I might be wrong
about and it was a long long shot and he gave
the assistant coach like 20 bucks on the horse and good nip by a nose came in
second but if it had come in I could see the guys looking the guys face even put
the money in you just figure this kid doesn't know what he's talking about and
it would have cost him like three four hundred bucks for a head for a five
dollar bat of something it was something crazy with his first taste for
high-stakes fun in the books well he started a website called the gambling
mancom to gain further experience in the field while still in school now after
graduating from Michigan in 1999 he moved to Boston where he began working
for Yankee group an IT market research company now he worked in sales there for
a number of years but then he quitted 2003 to pursue a passion of his own and
there are three ideas that I picked from before I chose Parcells for its next
step scouting knows name is scouting agency where it would match lower to
your athletes with coaches looking to fill you know spots from various sports
and the other one was a furniture company you know how at the end of
college everyone is pros that furniture on the side of the street throws away
I want to warehouse it and then resell it and then the other idea is barceló
sports which at the time was just a fantasy sports gambling idea none of the
three ideas will Dave he thought barstool would be the most realistic
because it would be the easiest to obtain advertising for now we struck up
a partnership with Boston metro and barstool sports it began life as a print
publication at first it was a free black and white newspaper offering fantasy
sports predictions gaming ads and general sports coverage then in 2007 the
website was launched in these early days well Dave he would work his ass off
putting in over ten hours a day seven days a week but that hard work has
clearly paid off over the next 13 years because barstool sports it would turn
into a sports media powerhouse with over 70 different podcasts including
favorites like pardon my take chicks in the office and Chiclets this ain't built
up a huge following in the key demographic of men aged 1834 and it is
seen its brand explode in news stories like with one a 2015 what David three
other employees were arrested while protesting Tom Brady's suspension
for deflategate that's really when I think thing you guys got a big big big
you got four morons and getting arrested like it's like it's okay I mean it was
it was unreal it was it was unreal even Tom knew about it you know he's you
should guys at the court it's like what the fuck are these guys like that's the
type of shit he would say they've jumped on the marketing opportunities that were
the result of these controversies and started selling merchandise of all sorts
including shirts depicting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as a clown
despite being unable to receive NFL media credentials since then well Dave
knows how to focus his spotlight Avot Aegis Lee and has since been escorted
out of several NFL events including the Super Bowl
there you might think that this type of press would work against him but it
really does it no Dave's mix of frat boys humor in sports it goes together
like Simon and Garfunkel and I think it goes without saying that Dave he is a
huge sports fan and with his recent sale low barstool sports it as big as it's
ever been I'm not leaving I'm not so where does
Dave go from here well apparently he's been looking at ways to become a sports
team owner goes I think owning the Denver Broncos pretty good yeah yeah
damn I might have to do a vs. on this guy and Gary Vee but that's all in the
future and for now well I think we'll have to end this story here because as
you know well this is before they are famous all right guys let me know what
what you think of this if there's anything to take away from this video is
that you should follow this guy on Instagram and check out his Pizza
reviews I watch them every day I watch them they're brilliant he's like doesn't
Matt Howe he doesn't bend the street sometimes I even wear clothes and
everybody knows the rules just won't bite which he never speaks to I love it
all right guys that's it I'm gonna wrap it up check out one of our other videos
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