Patrick Dees
Co Founder & Chief Revenue Officer at Fan Controlled Sports + Entertainment- Claim this Profile
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Fan Controlled Sports + Entertainment
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United States
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
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2015 - Present
Greater Los Angeles Area It started as a crazy idea for a digital community focused on enabling sports fans to act like the GM of their favorite team by buying the rights to a minor league squad and letting the fans vote on everything from the starting lineup to what type of beer is on tap. The original concept was dreamed up a long time ago and focused on baseball. Many years later this became a reality as we bought an expansion arena football team in the IFL, and let our fans call the shots. Then we… Show more It started as a crazy idea for a digital community focused on enabling sports fans to act like the GM of their favorite team by buying the rights to a minor league squad and letting the fans vote on everything from the starting lineup to what type of beer is on tap. The original concept was dreamed up a long time ago and focused on baseball. Many years later this became a reality as we bought an expansion arena football team in the IFL, and let our fans call the shots. Then we turned it into a full-fledged interactive league Fan Controlled Football Season v1.0 in early 2021 exclusively streaming on Twitch with a Seed Round led by Lighstpeed Ventures and Verizon Ventures, as well as a mix of celebrity team owners including Quavo, Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch and former NFL players Johnny Manziel and Josh Gordon taking the field. Based on the early success we raised our Series A round, expanded to eight teams, launched an awesome web3 project with our community of die hard fans, built the most bad ass venue in pro sports, signed Hall of Famer Terrell Owens and continued to scale with FCF Season v2.0 in 2022. And now we're working on become a multi-sport platform with plans in the works for Fan Controlled Hoops to launch in 2023. Show less
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Co-Founder& Chief Gaming Officer
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Oct 2017 - Present
Greater Los Angeles Area
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Salt Lake Screaming Eagles
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United States
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Owner
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Nov 2015 - Jun 2018
Greater Salt Lake City Area Powered by Project Fanchise, the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles was an expansion team in the Indoor Football League that played its games in the Maverik Center in SLC, UT - and was the first ever pro team to be run by the fans.
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Emerge Labs
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co Founder and CEO
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2011 - 2014
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Flipswap, Inc.
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Wireless Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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GM North America
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2006 - 2011
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