{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Entrepreneur Perspectives","title":"Why Youth Sports Needs Less Chaos and Better Tools | EP195","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3022,"description":"Why youth sports are chaotic, why parents carry the load, and how Onsides is trying to make it easier.\nYouth sports is not just practices, games, and tournaments anymore. It is schedules, apps, travel, training, equipment, group chats, recruiting pressure, and a lot of parents trying to keep up.\nDave Yoo, founder and CEO of Onsides, joins Eric Kasimov to talk about the problem his company is trying to solve. Onsides is built for parents of youth athletes who are tired of jumping between platforms and trying to make sense of scattered information. The goal is simple: reduce the cognitive load.\nEric and Dave also get into the bigger youth sports ecosystem, including AI, private coaching, NIL, parent behavior, social media, startup life, and what it means to build something useful in a noisy market.\nKey Takeaways\nWhy youth sports feels broken, but may be better described as underserved\nHow parents became the collateral damage of fragmented sports platforms\nWhy Onsides starts with scheduling but points toward something bigger\nHow AI can help parents without guessing on the details that matter\nWhy every feature should reduce cognitive load\nThe rise of private coaching, travel needs, and sports tech integrations\nWhat startup founders need to think about in the AI era\nWhy the youth sports conversation still has to come back to the kids\nChapters\n00:00 – Youth sports, sports tech, and the size of the market\n03:00 – Why Dave Yoo started Onsides\n06:06 – Building the all-in-one youth sports app for parents\n08:26 – Reducing cognitive load for sports families\n10:48 – Training, private coaching, and Athletes Untapped\n12:29 – How Onsides uses AI\n14:40 – Probabilistic AI vs. deterministic scheduling data\n16:41 – AI disruption in software engineering\n18:42 – Advice for students entering the workforce\n20:09 – College, uncertainty, and keeping up with change\n22:29 – Growth, awareness, and reaching overwhelmed parents\n24:31 – The commercialization of youth sports\n27:07 – Recreational...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RizKZ_m8P3ZnqlIJwmf46U798gyzwpAkOUj0f9XRzjM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNzEy/YjgwODhmZjU4NGNk/NzI0OWRiNDEzYTE0/ODkwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}