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Dave Wakeman's The Business of Fun Podcast

Dec 3, 2024

Love this episode! 

A great conversation with Zack Sugarman. 

Zack is the Chief Strategy Officer at Superplastic. 

Superplast just opened a brand new IRL space in Las Vegas at Area 15 called Dopeameme.

Dopeameme is called "The Institute for Pleasure Research". 

This is a way to bring the virtual and the physical...


Nov 21, 2024

I love this conversation with John Kinsner because John has done so many things as he has made his way to becoming CEO of Black Ink Presents that I can't call our conversation anything less than a love letter to the business. 

We discuss a ton of things today:

  • We talk about the tour for 'Labryinth'.
  • John's experience...


Nov 1, 2024

This is a special conversation that comes from a LinkedIn Live I did with Bruce Eckfelt and William Lieberman. 

We discuss KPIs. 

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Oct 21, 2024

My guest today is Jon Allen from TKT.com.

We had a good time talking about TKT's move to the European market. 

Jon teaches me about taking a US tech focused approach to the hospitality ticket market in Europe. 

We talk about opportunity. 
We also hit upon the importance of speaking the language of the market you are...


Oct 16, 2024

I've got Andrew Recinos on the podcast today! 

Andrew is the CEO of Tessitura. 

He came to me with a great idea: we have our podcast conversation built around the ideas I share with folks in 'The Fans for Life' workshop. 

We discussed ideas such as:

  • Why Andrew enjoys my POV of looking at tickets through the gamut of...