TechCrunch Minute: Why this entrepreneur is running the Oakland Ballers like a startup

The coolest startup successful nan Bay Area isn’t making AI robots aliases self-driving taxis. It’s really a shot team.

As his beloved Oakland A’s scheme to time off nan Bay, serial entrepreneur Paul Freedman sought retired a different type of venture. What if he could return what he learned from starring edtech startups to build nan shot squad that Oakland deserves? That’s really Freedman founded nan Oakland Ballers – or, nan Oakland B’s for short. 

With nan mindset of a startup founder, Freedman and his co-founder, Bryan Carmel, are taking connected a mammoth task. The B’s can’t afloat switch nan nonaccomplishment of an MLB squad – not to mention, Oakland has besides mislaid its NBA and NFL teams complete nan past 5 years. But nan B’s tin build thing that prioritizes nan fans and gives backmost to nan community.