E179: The Professional Triathlon market

What would you do if you had a blank sheet of paper and wanted to create a new type of sports rights holder. That’s the question posed in this conversation with Sam Renouf, Chief Executive of the Professional Triathlete Organisation, a body part owned by the best athletes in the world and backed by Sir Michael Moritz, one of the most successful tech investors of the last twenty years, via his company Sequoia Capital. What is the opportunity for the PTO to build a media and commercial programme around a new event schedule starting with The Collins Cup, a Ryder Cup-type international team format that pits the best in the world together on 28th  August. This is a way in to questions facing every sports rights holder as they seek to navigate a global marketplace of fans with fast changing expectations of how they want to consume elite sport. If you like the podcasts you’ll love the Unofficial Partner newsletter, that goes direct to the inbox of thousands of senior executives across the global sports business every Thursday. To join them, sign up via unofficialpartner.com Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.