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Derek Peterson

Derek Peterson

Co-founder of Stakeholder (Stak3holder), a decentralized sports trading platform where fans buy, sell and hold college team tokens; former professional baseball player and Temple University graduate.

Sep 8, 2026

1:41
As much time as we need.
1:44
So, yeah.
1:48
give you kind of the version here.
1:49
So Roger and I kind of met seven, eight years back, met through baseball, stayed in touch.
1:58
Roger's coming out of school.
1:59
I'm looking for a pivot and we decided, you know what, let's go solve a problem in the world, right? And so we set out to create a software platform to help organize a lot of the challenges surrounding NIL.
2:13
And we got all the way up to compliance at UCLA and they said, basically, look, Love what you guys are doing, but long story short, this is not our primary focus.

27 MINS LATER

29:43
I did, before we get out of here, I did want to get your guys' opinions, because I think it plays into kind of what I was saying in the beginning with playmakers and, you know, them being a part of, you know, college sports, but we have essentially NFL players coming back into college, so I was curious how that would affect some of the trading with LSU and these teams, but What do we think about NFL players coming back into college?

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