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Podcast: Sports Cards Live
Episode: Inside Arena Club: Brian Lee on Disrupting Grading, Marketplace & Repack Models
Description: In Part 1 of Episode 273, Jeremy Lee welcomes Arena Club founder and serial entrepreneur Brian Lee for a deep-dive conversation into the origins and future of Arena Club—a company that’s trying to do grading, marketplace, and repacks differently.
Brian shares the story of how a frustrating conversation at the 2022 National with a vague repack seller sparked the idea for Arena Club’s “Slab Packs,” and how Derek Jeter—yes, that Derek Jeter—became a co-founder. He opens up about the uphill battle to gain traction in a hobby dominated by legacy grading companies and entrenched marketplaces, and why transp...