How Dave Portnoy bought back his $840M company for just $1

The Dive | Business News

You may have recently seen the headlines that the founder of Barstool Sports recently bought his media company back for $1 after selling it for $840 million. That sounds like a pretty good deal… We knew there was more of a story there.

Today, Sascha is joined by Equity Mates colleague Alf Eddy to discuss how Dave Portnoy regained control of the massive media empire BarStool Sports all for a tiny piece of change.

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