“I have known Mark for close to 20 years. When asked to write a short statement on when I knew he and SponServe would be a success, to be honest, the SponServe part was relatively insignificant in the context of the question. You see, in knowing Mark for as long as I have, I knew he would be successful, it was just a matter of him leaping to go out on his own, to light the fire. Too many people in the world of sports and startups, they are in it for the optics, the free tickets, to put ‘entrepreneur’ on their LinkedIn profile. This is not Mark. Mark doesn’t care about the title or tags, He is immune to the rubbish. Mark is in the game to make an impact, make a change, and will do so by out hustling, out networking and out grinding whoever or whatever is in his way. My question to Mark now is: what’s next and can I invest?”