Passion to Profession: Employee No. 12 — Building Overtime and Its Trading Cards with Sam Gordon

<p>Sam Gordon had accepted a job on Wall Street.</p><p>Two weeks before he was set to start, he walked away and joined Overtime as its 12th employee. The company had a few months of funding left.</p><p>Today, Sam serves as VP of Programming and Head of YouTube at Overtime.</p><p>Sam shares how $15 videos of Zion Williamson reached SportsCenter, why Overtime chose speed over production quality, and how the company grew from a social media account into a sports league.</p><p>We also get the collector’s view of building the Topps OTE card products.</p><p>Sam explains the push for on-card autographs, rookie logos, card backs written in Overtime’s voice, and the production demands that led to stickers and redemptions.</p><p>He also tells the story of turning a Lionel Messi Superfractor autograph pulled from a box at work into his favorite card, a 1999 Michael Jordan Final Floor autograph.</p><p>This is a conversation about trusting people, testing ideas, building with ownership, and creating sports cards from the collector’s seat.</p><p>Passion to Profession is presented by eBay.</p><p><br>Sign up for <a href="https://stackingslabs.substack.com/p/coming-soon?r=hjr6d&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=copy">Hobby Jobs and The Weekly Rip</a> for free</p><p>A special thank you to <a href="https://www.ebay.com/">eBay</a> for sponsoring <em>Passion to Profession</em>. The biggest and best marketplace to buy your next favorite trading card.</p><p>Get exclusive content, promote your cards, and connect with other collectors who listen to the pod today by joining the Patreon: <a href="https://patreon.com/StackingSlabs?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&amp;utm_source=copyLink&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=join_link">Join Stacking Slabs Podcast Patreon</a></p> <strong> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/StackingSlabs" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★">★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★</a> </strong>