Flint Lane 🏓

CEO of Major League Table Tennis ( Owner Princeton and Naples Pong, Former CEO Billtrust.

Volunteer Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have more hobbies and fewer opinions. Learn an instrument. Plant a garden. Build something with your hands. Cook. Paint. Run. The happiest people I know spend less time debating life and more time actually living it.

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

The sign of being a great entrepreneur is not how good your ideas are.

It's how clever you can be about figuring out quick, cheap, and easy ways to try them.

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

I notice that founders pivot too early because the path is hard.

But remember that hard doesn't mean wrong.

[Flint Lane 🏓 @FlintLane]

@franklinleonard @VFCorp I know the CFO. DM me if that helps.

[Flint Lane 🏓 @FlintLane]

@AwesemoDFS You should build it. I’ll invest.

[єℓαιηє @elainesim28]

My daughter got sent out of class for being too sarcastic today.
The teacher said, "What would your parents say if I called them?"

She replied, "Hello!"

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Now that “Marty Surpreme” has proven appetite for ping pong films (A24 biggest opening ever: $28m), a studio needs to greenlight a film about America’s most decorated table tennis Olympian (Lily Zhang)…and how her parents get a Gold medal for Asian parenting

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Timothee Chalamet is
Tyler Kolek
in
KOLEK

[The Ringer @ringer]

Timothée Chalamet’s gripping new movie, ‘Marty Supreme,’ is earning rave reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz. But how’s the ping-pong?

@HKSurrey:

https://t.co/p5Y7uwkw66

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

Startups are NOT meant to be fair. You need to find your unfair advantage..

[Nick Mehta @nrmehta]

Story Time:

15 years ago, some unexpected feedback changed the way I think about leadership and life and got me to take way more accountability.

Spoiler: The feedback was about being late for a meeting.

🧵

[Flint Lane 🏓 @FlintLane]

@CoachGoldsmith Thanks for continuing to share the wisdom. Your speech (and book) at an Inc 500 conference in the 2000s was a game changer. Have since recommended it to dozens of people.

[Marshall Goldsmith @CoachGoldsmith]

You have listened. You have made your decision. Your direct report disagrees.

This is a moment every leader faces.

Your instinct will probably be to 'prove them wrong' or go into 'debate' mode'.

Don't.

You are the decision maker. It is your call. Do what you believe is right.

Great leadership doesn’t require victory in every conversation. It requires clarity, humility, and the courage to say:

“I respect your view. I’ve decided to go a different way. I want you to support us moving forward.”

That’s not weakness. That’s strength.

Life is good.
Marshall

[Ben Everard @beneverard]

I can foresee a scenario where the major sports leagues themselves act as the streaming distributor, cutting out the middleman network entirely.

Thus, instead of brokering deals with legacy networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox) and tech streamers (Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon), the NFL/NBA/MLB itself handles broadcast distribution.

If the leagues sell off broadcast rights, by definition the networks believe they can make more money than the cost of the broadcast deal. Hence, the networks are a middleman.

It is easier and more convenient at the moment for leagues to sell broadcast rights, but long term owning the entire vertical may prove more lucrative.

[Flint Lane 🏓 @FlintLane]

Note to Table Tennis TV team (@TTTVplus), we might be onto something.

[Ben Everard @beneverard]

I can foresee a scenario where the major sports leagues themselves act as the streaming distributor, cutting out the middleman network entirely.

Thus, instead of brokering deals with legacy networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox) and tech streamers (Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon), the NFL/NBA/MLB itself handles broadcast distribution.

If the leagues sell off broadcast rights, by definition the networks believe they can make more money than the cost of the broadcast deal. Hence, the networks are a middleman.

It is easier and more convenient at the moment for leagues to sell broadcast rights, but long term owning the entire vertical may prove more lucrative.

[Major League Table Tennis @MajorLeagueTT]

What a POINT from Lily Zhang!💥

📺 Stream MLTT on https://t.co/uppv1SQyNM

[Major League Table Tennis @MajorLeagueTT]

KOKI NIWA DOES IT AGAIN!🤩

📺 Stream MLTT on https://t.co/uppv1SQyNM

[笠原弘光 Hiromitsu Kasahara @hiromitsu0627]

全日本社会人ベスト8でした！
全日本に向けてベスト8以上と思ってたので一旦よかった！
支えていただいてる皆様いつもありがとうございます！

[Major League Table Tennis @MajorLeagueTT]

Koki Niwa is EVERYWHERE

📺 Stream MLTT on https://t.co/uppv1SQyNM