big bets on cheap chairs

Big Bets on Cheap Chairs goes international. We sat down with Kiertan Saujani, General Manager Cricket at the Rajasthan Royals, on the pitch of the Royals' home stadium in Jaipur, one day after they won one of the final matches of IPL 2026. In India, cricket reaches into almost every living room. Kiertan walks us through the game behind the game: scouting raw talent alongside seasoned players,...

For the next episode of Big Bets on Cheap Chairs, our host Mey sits down with Joëlle Romba, one of the most respected figures in the German art market. An art historian by training, Joëlle ran Sotheby's Berlin office and is now Senior Specialist for modern and contemporary art at Dorotheum. She curates the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection and, together with her husband Eric, has built a collect...

Cedric Marechal is Founder and CEO of New Tales, a Paris-based game publisher and developer founded by industry veterans. With nearly three decades in gaming, Cedric has shaped some of the biggest franchises in the industry, from World of Warcraft and Diablo to Call of Duty at Blizzard, and oversaw major international operations as Senior Vice President at Activision Blizzard. In this episode, Fab...

For the second episode of Big Bets on Cheap Chairs , our host Fabian sits down with Marko Pešić, one of the most respected executives in European basketball. Born in Sarajevo and shaped by his father, the legendary coach Svetislav Pešić, Marko built a playing career across Berlin, Greece, and Italy, winning six German League titles with ALBA Berlin and representing Germany on the international sta...

For the very first episode of big bets on cheap chairs, our host Mey is sitting down with Javier de la Fuente, one of the sharpest talent scouts in Germany. He spotted award winning rap artist Luciano early on YouTube and worked with him ever since. Since then he has taken that instinct to the Icon League and Angel investing in companies like Loco Chicken - exactly the cross-disciplinary eye this...