Recently receiving investment from the NBA, NHL, and Profluence Capital, John Stewart is transforming sports at Fastbreak AI.
Fastbreak AI brings the power of world-class, sports scheduling optimization featuring a robust and intuitive user experience for league setup, defining scheduling goals, metric reporting, schedule modification, and distribution.
John Stewart sold his last company, MapAnything, to Salesforce in 2019.
Chapters:
(00:40) Building & exiting MapAnything
(04:00) Opportunity John saw in sports
(07:00) Fastbreak AI scheduling
(10:20) Downstream into youth sports
(12:00) Next products
(15:30) Advice on fundraising
(17:40) Bootstrapping vs venture capital
(20:40) Managing raised capital
(22:50) Having mainly engineers
(25:15) Macro trends in sports to watch