After selling his advertising agency in the 1970s, Peter Fox became an independent television producer, winning Clio, Addy, and Golden Pen awards. He was the founding executive producer of ESPN, and later became producer, director, and writer of corporate communications materials for Lloyds of London Syndicate, DuPont, United Technologies, and PPG Industries among others. He is currently Editor in Chief of SportsEdTV, the leader in online sports instruction, and managing director of SportsEdTV's Learn to Win peak performance training, powered by HeartMath research and technology. He lives in North Carolina.
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"Every disruptive, overnight success starts with the same ingredients: gritty founders, emerging technology and years of personal sacrifices to materialize a vision of the future. The Early Days of ESPN is a true delight; first-person, visceral insights and observations, not from the conquering armies of later years, but from those who bootstrapped a vision to radically improve the way we experience sports. This book is for everyone and anyone who loves sports, technology and the unrelenting optimism of startup founders, presented with all of the brutal realism that is the founding of a company." --Will Grannis, Vice President and CTO of Google Cloud "We were like Mercury astronauts. We were rebels without a clue and working our asses off. I knew this was a good idea. We had a hand in building something that grew way beyond our imaginations. When there's a game on the moon, 'SPNauts will do it." --Chris "Boomer" Berman, anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN since 1979, host of Sunday NFL Countdown from 1985-2016 and NFL Primetime from 1987-2005 and since 2019