CEO of The Athletic Alex Mather chats with Recode’s Peter Kafka about his path of setting out to disrupt local sports media through hiring away top talent and building out a subscription model. But will it be profitable?

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Featuring: Alex Mather (@amather), CEO of The Athletic

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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