♦️Columbia faculty: Entrepreneurship & Sports Innovation♦️Former CEO top-10 sports tech. co. acquired by ESPN♦️Venture partner 🎓 Full-time faculty at Columbia University teaching graduate-level courses in entrepreneurship & innovation ♦ Senior Lecturer, Sports Management program. 🕺🏻Was CEO top-10 sports technology company acquired by ESPN. 🏈 Former NFL and Sports Illustrated. 🎓 Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School. ⚡️CEO & Founder of Greater Good Ventures. 🎓 Grant is a highly-rated lecturer, co-author of a Harvard Business School case study, successful startup CEO, and venture partner who works with firms from early stage startups to large corporations to launch new ventures, transform businesses for rapid growth and drive business success 📈. 🕺🏻As CEO, Grant grew a previous startup, SchoolSports into a top-10 sports technology company acquired by ESPN. As CEO, he raised three rounds of venture financing after seed round financing including: series A🙂 series B😁 series C😎 🕺🏻Grant’s professional experience includes over 30 years of marketing, subscription marketing, e-commerce and digital media experience at iconic brands including the NFL and Sports Illustrated. 🎓 Prior to joining Columbia’s Sports Management program, Grant taught Entrepreneurship and Sports Marketing courses at the Yale School of Management and Columbia Business School. 🔎 Applied research on entrepreneurship and innovation including: 💡 How firms innovate. ⚡️ Accelerators and corporate accelerators. 💰 Angel investors, venture capital and corporate venture capital. 🚀 Sports startups and the sports ecosystem. 🔗 linkedin.com/in/grantson