Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

Ex-Google | Ex-Meta | Founder, Washington Solutions | The Plug Newsletter | Former D1 football (Syracuse, UMass) washington-solutions.com/links New Jersey Joined December 2024

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

4 hours ago

I write about lessons like this, from the field to the boardroom, in The Plug. Subscribe here: washington-solutions.beehiiv.com What are you calling hurt, when you know it is really injured?

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

4 hours ago

If you are hurt, adjust, recover, and keep your standard. If you are injured, stop, get help, and fix it. The best leaders can tell the difference in themselves and their people before a season gets lost.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

4 hours ago

I missed a whole year of football because I did not know the difference between hurt and injured.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

15 hours ago

@PeteThamel Agencies are hiring presidents just to run NIL now. That is how fast this market professionalized. Two years ago it was a side hustle. Today it needs an org chart.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

15 hours ago

@SBJ A Star Wars alt cast for the Super Bowl tells you the game is a platform now. The NFL is not selling one broadcast anymore. It is selling a doorway for every fandom on earth.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

15 hours ago

@Sportico $14.5 billion in revenue changes the temperature of every room the NBA walks into. Expansion fees, media deals, salary cap math. When the pie grows like this, everybody's argument over slices gets louder.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

15 hours ago

@SBJ SeatGeek chasing the NFL's ticketing business is a fight over the front door. Whoever sells the ticket owns the fan relationship, the data, and the fees. Ticketmaster knows exactly what that door is worth.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

15 hours ago

@Sportico The NFL is not just letting private equity in the building anymore. It is building the fund with them. When the biggest league in sports becomes its own investor, the line between league and capital disappears.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

2 days ago

@FOS Chad Johnson putting real NIL money on the table for Oregon State is the celebrity era of recruiting arriving on schedule. The bag does not just come from collectives anymore. Now it comes with a brand attached.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

2 days ago

@SBJ Peyton Manning wanting a piece of the Colts is the new retirement plan for legends. The jersey comes off, the equity goes on. Ownership is where the real second career lives.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

2 days ago

@PeteThamel This is the part of NIL that actually protects kids. A check without a plan is a countdown. A conference teaching athletes what to do with the money is worth more than another collective headline.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

2 days ago

@On3NIL Parity sounds great in a press conference. The money does not care. The schools with the biggest donor bases will find the edge, because NIL did not create the gap. It just made it visible.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

3 days ago

@UrinatingTree I played in systems that developed you over years. The portal made development somebody else's job. Now it's nobody's job. The programs that figure that out first win the next decade.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

3 days ago

@LangmanVince Underwood isn't the bust. The bust is a system that pays a kid like a finished product, then develops him like an afterthought. Money without a development plan just buys a bigger spotlight for a kid who needed time.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

3 days ago

@pmg911 Rankings don't sign scholarships. Development does. Parents, ask any service one question before you pay a dollar: who have you placed, at what level, and can I call them? If they can't answer, you already have your answer.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

3 days ago

@FOS An 18th game is not a football decision. It is inventory. More weeks to sell to the networks, more windows for the sponsors, and the players' bodies are the cost nobody puts on the slide.

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Timothy Washington @TimWashington_

3 days ago

@FOS Every stadium fight comes down to the same question. Who writes the check, and who keeps the upside. The Bears want a building. Pritzker wants to know why the public should pay for an asset it will never own.