24-05-2025
ETTL Classic: Making No Excuses With Former Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers Badan
We all make excuses. Eventually we need to see them for what they truly are: delay tactics.
On today's ETTL encore, CEO of Food52 Erika Ayers Badan shares how she shepherded the sale of Barstool Sports to Penn Entertainment for more than half $1 billion, made no excuses, and wrote her new book, Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure Is Good, the Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths .
She breaks down the importance of taking risks, owning up to your mistakes, and emphasizes the value of failure.
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