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Darren Rovell

@darrenrovell
24 posts
2025-12-05
This is what happens and what will continue to happen when unregulated markets are bet on as if they are regulated.
2025-12-05 View on X
Forbes

A Polymarket trader allegedly netted $1M+ in 24 hours with large positions on 22 correct predictions out of 23 attempts on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes :

2024-02-13
Ad Age named the Temu ad the worst commercial of the Super Bowl. It's very possible that, although not creative, funny or celebrity packed, that no ad will have a better ROI. [image]
2024-02-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January

the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit...

2024-02-01
Larry David, in classic Larry David style, says he'd like to be on the plaintiffs side in a lawsuit he is a part of against FTX. In the ad, David said he could never get into crypto and “he's never wrong about this stuff — ever.” His lines were right, but got paid by FTX.
2024-02-01 View on X
CoinDesk

An FTX lawyer says the defunct crypto exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform, due to a lack of buyers

2023-05-15
How incredible of a deal is Fanatics $150 million acquisition of PointsBet? PointsBet shareholders will get in between 71 to 73 cents a share on the sale. The US stock was worth more than 17 TIMES that at its height in February 2021. https://www.actionnetwork.com/ ...
2023-05-15 View on X
Axios

US-based sports merchandise retailer Fanatics agrees to acquire the US assets of Australia-based online sports betting company PointsBet for $150M in cash

Pointsbet outlines that they are 7th in terms of market share … Tweets: Contessa Brewer / @contessabrewer : The ceo of Fanatics Betting and Gaming Matt King said last week that mar...

2022-12-21
Google is behind Amazon and Apple in the non-traditional sports rights pecking order. This makes them big immediately. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting

DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games

2022-07-16
192 days ago, Opensea raised $300 million on a $13,000,000,000 valuation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-16 View on X
The Block

NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says the company laid off ~20% of employees; OpenSea didn't disclose the number impacted but said that 230 staff remain

Michael McSweeney / The Block :

2022-07-15
192 days ago, Opensea raised $300 million on a $13,000,000,000 valuation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-15 View on X
The Block

NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says the company laid off ~20% of employees; OpenSea didn't disclose the number impacted but said that 230 staff remain

- NFT marketplace major OpenSea announced layoffs on Thursday.  — CEO Devin Finzer said in a statement that “~20% of our team” had been let go.

2022-05-09
Six years ago, I wrote a story on @TeamLiquid, one of the standout teams in an esports business worth an estimated $450 million. Today, @TeamLiquid's parent company @aXiomaticGaming raised $35M that values the team alone at $415 million. https://www.espn.com/...
2022-05-09 View on X
Forbes

Axiomatic Gaming, the parent of esports organization Team Liquid, raises $35M led by Ares Management, valuing Team Liquid at $415M

2022-03-03
Fanatics is now worth roughly SEVEN TIMES their value just five years ago https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-03-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: sports e-commerce startup Fanatics raises $1.5B at a $27B valuation, up from $18B in August 2021

2022-02-15
Coinbase has a great chance to win the Super Bowl ad meters tomorrow morning. But does the fact that they couldn't handle the traffic and crashed make you concerned about having your crypto with them?
2022-02-15 View on X
The Block

Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad

Hope you're having a great week.  —  Welcome to the mesha tribe … Sara Celi / The Crypto Connection : How Does It All Work, Anyway? Shannon Miller / Adweek : The 10 Best Super Bowl...

2022-02-14
Coinbase has a great chance to win the Super Bowl ad meters tomorrow morning. But does the fact that they couldn't handle the traffic and crashed make you concerned about having your crypto with them?
2022-02-14 View on X
The Block

Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad

Crypto apps shot up App Store download charts in the US on Monday morning, after a Super Bowl studded with digital assets advertising.

2022-01-20
Tom Brady's NFT platform RAISES $170 million. No word on what it's current valuation is. The money is frothy https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-01-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Autograph, an agency co-founded by Tom Brady that helps celebrities get involved with NFTs, raises a $170M Series B co-led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins

Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding …

2021-11-03
A reminder to stick to your core business. Zillow's core business wasn't real estate. It was real estate DATA. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-03 View on X
GeekWire

Zillow says it is shutting down its home buying business, laying off ~2,000 employees, and taking a write down of $500M+; stock drops 10%+

Zillow Group's ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end.  —  The Seattle online real estate giant …

2021-07-10
Apple and Amazon want to be in sports. ESPN has a lot locked up for years, but if I'm ESPN long term, this is what keeps me up at night. Apple and Amazon cash blow away Disney cash. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-10 View on X
The Information

Sources: Apple has had discussions with NFL execs to buy streaming rights for Sunday Ticket games, which currently air on DirecTV

and it could be a game changer Michael Simon / Macworld : The NFL reportedly wants Apple to air NFL games in 2023 Deadline : Apple Exploring Streaming NFL's Sunday Ticket Games On ...

2021-05-02
Great story in the @nytimes on the “Breathing NFT” and the rise of @JayZedRun Disclosure: I own 12 digital horses on the platform. https://www.google.com/...
2021-05-02 View on X
New York Times

A look at Zed Run, a digital horse racing platform where users breed, race, and trade NFT horses, with some digital steeds and stables selling for six figures

Horse racing meet NFT mania on Zed Run, a digital platform where some top steeds are fetching six-figure sums. Tweets: @joefav , @darrenrovell , @sunny_hundal , @adamlevitan , @tom...

2021-02-11
The next 2 weeks are going to be critical for Clubhouse. Everyone is coming for them. Facebook will have greatest shot based on history of them usurping stories from Snapchat. Twitter I give much lower odds of pulling anything off. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse

The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Econ...

2020-09-30
Love the fractional share collectible business. It has been incredible to work with these guys to help them identify what's next. The future lies in acquiring museum type pieces that an every day person can say “I own a piece of that” or “I cashed in off that sale.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-30 View on X
TechCrunch

Rally raises $17M from Porsche Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and others for its service that lets users list and invest in, but not buy, collectibles

2020-06-30
Very interesting play. Also not easy. Under Armour couldn't figure out MapMyFitness. Nike had a hard time weaving in outside tech as well. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-30 View on X
TechCrunch

Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M

Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million.  The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …

2020-03-16
3:42 p.m. ET on Friday: Trump says Google is developing a nationwide website that will be “very quickly done” to help qualify Americans for drive-thru tests. Google, 94 minutes later: We aren't close to having this ready and it's not guaranteed to be nationwide. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-16 View on X
Reuters

Google says it is working with the US government to develop a nationwide COVID-19 website on symptoms, risks, and testing info, in addition to other measures

but Not Like Trump Said New York Times : Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus Sean Collins / Vox : Despite his experts' grave warnings, Trump wants everyone to just “r...

3:42 p.m. ET on Friday: Trump says Google is developing a nationwide website that will be “very quickly done” to help qualify Americans for drive-thru tests. Google, 94 minutes later: We aren't close to having this ready and it's not guaranteed to be nationwide. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-16 View on X
CNBC

Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account

- Alphabet's Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it would.