It was a bad business deal, a byproduct of my failure to properly vet my business partners.” “I told Clay in November that I was going to exit OutKick unless Savage invested the $500,000 he committed and we backed away from using Savage Ventures. In my view, Sam Savage, the person with the smallest stake in OutKick and the least amount of value, exercised the most control over the company. “Sam refused to pay the $500,000 and his consulting firm, Savage Ventures, charged OutKick $42,000 a month for work that I deemed amateur. He told me that my arrival at OutKick was a ‘kick in the nuts’ and that all three of us should own one-third of OutKick. My equity in OutKick was based on ‘sweat.’ I believe my ‘sweat’ is far more valuable than Sam’s. Clay said that he didn’t want to waste time or energy pursuing Sam’s investment.
Shortly after I arrived at OutKick, my lawyer was told that things were going so well financially that Sam no longer needed to invest $500,000 to get an equity stake in OutKick,” Whitlock said. “Both Clay and Sam told me directly (and my lawyer in writing) that Sam’s equity stake in OutKick was contingent on Sam investing $500,000. In an interview with Front Office Sports, the controversial sportscaster told his side of the split, claiming it was due to a disagreement over $500,000 that was supposed to be invested by Sam Savage, who runs consulting firm Savage Ventures. He was given a standard sendoff with the site wishing him the best, but Whitlock then cryptically tweeted, “Do not believe anything written or said about me unless I say it. Whitlock left Clay Travis’ site in January after a little over six months. Jason Whitlock’s exit from right-leaning sports website OutKick was surprising, as he was one of the more prominent voices at the website. Skip Bayless has his heart set on next ‘Undisputed’ partner ‘Do that s–t with somebody white’: Rappers challenge Skip Bayless to change it up Riley Gaines launching podcast in transgender sports fight New York Times to shutter sports desk, rely on The Athletic for daily coverage
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