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Marc MacRae Built a Retail Career Like a Coach Builds a Team
Across four decades in sporting-goods retail, Marc MacRae has treated merchandising, mentoring and football coaching as versions of the same job: put people in the right position, then help them win.
Brian Park
Brian Park is the CEO of Skillest, the world's leading remote sports coaching marketplace that connects athletes with elite coaches through asynchronous video analysis. A Silicon Valley veteran who was the 95th employee at Yahoo and co-founder of Yahoo! Messenger, Park pivoted to sports tech to democratize access to elite coaching - putting a world-class coach in every athlete's pocket. Under his leadership, Skillest has grown to 600+ coaches, 200,000+ golfers, and secured partnerships with Stephen Curry's UNDERRATED Golf and Arccos Golf, becoming the digital coaching standard in golf and expanding across multiple sports.
Tyler Maloney
Tyler Maloney is a three-time founder and CEO of TeachMe.To, a San Francisco-based marketplace connecting students with vetted local coaches for private lessons in sports, music, and arts. A NC State Park Scholar with a Stanford MBA, he previously co-founded Undercover Colors - a date-rape drug detection nail polish that raised $12M - and Faves, a video bookmarking app with 200,000+ users. TeachMe.To, described as 'the Airbnb for skills,' has grown from 2 lessons per day in 2022 to over 250 daily across every major U.S. city, backed by investors including Sam Altman, Bling Capital, and 1984 Ventures, with $10.5M raised.