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The Talent Manager Who Stopped Chasing the Algorithm
Outshine Talent made an early bet on TikTok. Seven years later, its more interesting wager is that a creator's career should survive the platform that made it possible.
The Basketball Agency That Made Distance Its Home-Court Advantage
Bill Duffy built BDA by treating international players like first-class clients. Then he tested whether a relationship business could borrow the scale of Hollywood without losing its bedside manner.
PlayMetrics Wants to Make Youth Sports Boring - In the Best Possible Way
Youth sports runs on volunteers, weather alerts and too many spreadsheets. PlayMetrics built one operating system for the whole unruly machine - then used a merger, an acquisition and a sharp round of divestitures to make that bet bigger.
The Talent Agency That Turned a Rolodex Into a Global Operating System
WME sells no tickets, streams no shows and prints no books of its own. Its product is leverage - the relationships, market intelligence and dealmaking machinery that turn talent into durable businesses.