Sports & Talent
Athletes, teams, leagues, and the businesses forming around talent. I’m interested in how careers become companies—and who owns the upside.
Drew Jacobs · Lawyer · Operator · Founder
Across sports, entertainment, gaming, and startups, I work with founders, operators, athletes, and creators turning ideas into companies, products, deals, and careers. This is where I share what I’m learning from inside the work.
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I’m drawn to people with something to prove and ideas that do not fit neatly into old categories.
Athletes, teams, leagues, and the businesses forming around talent. I’m interested in how careers become companies—and who owns the upside.
The people turning attention, taste, and intellectual property into durable businesses, without giving away the leverage that made them valuable.
Products and companies built where competition, technology, culture, and regulation collide.
Founders and operators taking ideas that do not fit the old playbook and making them real.
Across all four: ownership, deals, leverage, technology, distribution, and the structure that helps good work keep moving.
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The briefing where I follow the people, deals, and shifts shaping those worlds.
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About
Andrew “Drew” Jacobs, Esq.
Licensed in NY · NJ · OH
I have always been drawn to rooms where talented people are trying to make something happen. Walking on at Boston College taught me to earn a role before anyone promised me one. I bring that instinct to founders, athletes, creators, and operators building across sports, entertainment, gaming, and startups.
Jacobs Counsel is the legal platform. Court Vision is where I follow the people and ideas moving these industries. The Bootcamp brings the ecosystem into one room. This site connects the pieces.
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The briefing on the people, deals, and shifts shaping sports, entertainment, gaming, and startups.
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