Hit Makers by Derek Thompson romps through the history of media, fashion and music to elucidate how and why things become popular.

My friend, Gary, and I, sophomores at Syracuse in 2004, stood by the main campus bus stop from the late morning to the early afternoon handing out flyers for a concert I'd arranged until we had none left. In a playful - and terrible - fa...

As detailed in my essay, "My Time w/ TBL: 2018-2023," I was a cofounder of a sports technology platform we called SportsCastr, later rebranded as PANDA Interactive. While we were still called SportsCastr, a platform that we designed as a...

From the winter of 2018 through the summer of 2022 I ran point on the partnership between The Basketball League and the live streaming video platform my partners and I founded and operated, PANDA Interactive. Prior to the tip-off of the ...

In 2015, my partners and I founded SportsCastr (rebranded in 2021 as PANDA Interactive). Among the initial investor group were NBA Commissioner Emeritus David Stern, the NFL Players Association and NBA great, TNT commentator Steve Smith...