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Podcast: Unofficial Partner Podcast
Episode: E54: The Opta Story
Description: Aidan Cooney is founder and CEO of InCrowd, the fan experience technology company and is probably best known as the guy who created and ran Opta, the world’s leading sports data business, which he sold to Perform Group in 2014.The story of Opta is the story of the rise of sports data, from a marginal, nerdy backwater to the billion dollar industry it is today. Aidan played a central role in this evolution and this is part of an occasional series of podcasts we’ve done that goes deep in to the history and future of sports tech. If you’...