The Man Who Built 17 Billion Views, Now He Wants a Baseball Team

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan built one of the biggest channels on the planet from Montreal. 17 billion views. 40 million subscribers. Fifteen years without a dollar of outside money. Six of those years, he lost money and took out a second mortgage. Now he wants to do something harder: bring Major League Baseball back to Montreal. A team that left in 2004. A four-billion-dollar price tag he doesn't have. A stadium that doesn't exist. And a plan that's mostly phone calls and a refusal to ask anyone's permission. In this episode we get into all of it. The "10-year overnight success." The four-quadrant theory of using AI without torching your own brand. Cyrus the Great as a management consultant. Why he picked Montreal on purpose. The permission fallacy that built an empire and might just build a ballpark. And the desert-island question that ends with him choosing his wife, his daughters, and a Shih Tzu named Lily over Warren Buffett and every investor in his phone. The dog, for the record, has no idea she won. Funny, occasionally feral, and weirdly moving by the end. 🎙️ This is the ADOTAT Show. 🔔 Subscribe for more conversations with the people building the future without waiting for permission.