Prioritising Quotas over Excellence is Wrong.

by roger mitchell | Oct 29, 2023

  Full disclosure: I’ve never been convinced by positive discrimination, quotas, and the rest. I worked in South Africa long enough to see the nonsense of Black Economic Empowerment. Basically a racket for the insiders who came to power. We are all children of...

Soccer’s Siren Song

by roger mitchell | Apr 17, 2021

Never before have we seen big finance and PE work so hard to invest in sport, which in Europe is dominated by soccer. Everything else just makes up the summer months every second year. 😉 The reasons are many, but let’s just list a few: Arbitrage in the...

The Sportech Goldrush Redux: Three Years on!

by roger mitchell | Mar 30, 2021

Back in 2018, I wrote a piece about the upcoming boom in early stage sportstech investments. It got a bit of attention and, in many ways, signposted what I and Albachiara were going to do in this sector since then. Both as an accelerator, and as advisors. That article...

Sports Darwin Moment

by roger mitchell | May 3, 2019

One of the huge challenges for any content creator is the tsunami of available “copy” out there for free. Good content. Gratis. It’s bloody hard to compete with “free” Incidentally, this exactly was the dilemma facing my splendid podcast co-host, Grant Williams, in...

The incredible transformation of HR, the ugly duckling

by raffaella cardarelli | Dec 11, 2018

  Once upon a time, in the Business Kingdom, lived an ugly duckling called HR. This is the story of her incredible transformation into a beautiful swan. Because, sometimes, dreams do come true.   HR came to life with an important task: to select the most...