Here's What Happened When Mets Owner Fred Wilpon Found Out About Periscope
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When Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon found out about live-streaming app Periscope last week, he reacted in a fashion you’d expect from someone whose business depends on broadcast revenue.
“You don’t know how quickly, by the way, when I get out of the room,” Mr. Wilpon said, leaving the end of the sentence hanging. Perhaps he was ready to get Major League Baseball lawyers warming up in the bullpen. At one point during the conversation, he jokingly pretended to bolt from his chair. He appeared both amused and astonished.
The room Mr. Wilpon referenced was a suite on the fourth floor of the Mets’ Citi Field, where the VC firm Lerer Hippeau Ventures hosted its annual CEO Summit last Friday. In a breakout session called “Digital Strategy in a Mobile First World” someone in attendance asked him, “Are you guys going to allow Periscoping of baseball games?” What followed appeared to be Mr. Wilpon’s first in-depth lesson on the mobile live-streaming phenomenon.
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