Jared Carrabis has learned to stand on his own since leaving Barstool last year. Carrabis joined forces with DraftKings to launch the Baseball is Dead podcast.
In an interview with Jessica Kleinschmidt on the Short & To The Point podcast, Carrabis said he’s ditched the mindset of being a cog in the machine like he felt a lot of the folks on the content side at Barstool had.
“Are you a product of the company or are you a product of your hard work? And I think it’s a combination of both,” he said of what he’s been able to achieve in this new venture. “I know that Barstool helped me a ton. But there are definitely examples of people who go there and work there and move on and you never hear from them again.”
Jared also felt like it was important he break free from the shadow of Barstool founder Dave Portnoy. Portnoy has built Barstool into the behemoth it is today, but Carrabis felt like he was judged for working at Barstool because of some of the controversies Dave has found himself in over the years.
“That always bothered me, where people wouldn’t give me a chance because of things that were said or done by other people,” he said. “That’s not fair.”
Carrabis added that being independent he has more control over his perceived reputation.
“Now I have the opportunity to be judged based on what I do and what I say, versus what other people do and say,” he said.
“Admittedly, it would bother me when people were like, ‘Oh, you’re Dave’s bitch’ and ‘You’d be nothing without, without Dave,’” Carrabis added. “In my head I’m thinking, ‘That’s not true!’ But I can’t prove it, how do I prove that?”
