Brett Nardini (2024)

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Former Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers Badan has an estimated net worth of $12 million, and had a reported $600,000 Barstool salary.

Brett is a former Wall Street executive who recently pivoted over to the youth sports industry based on its growing dynamic. Currently he is working in a business development role at Athletes Hospitality where they are trying to professionalize the overall youth sports experience.

Erika Ayers Badan (formerly Nardini; born November 6, 1975) is an American businesswoman and CEO of Food52. Ayers served as the first CEO of Barstool Sports from 2016 to 2024.

What is the highest salary at Barstool Sports? The highest-paying job at Barstool Sports is a VP Finance with a salary of $229,322 per year (estimate).

"I'm stepping down as the CEO of Barstool — I feel super sad about it," Ayers Badan said in her video. "It's been a wild run. I'm so grateful ... What we made of [Barstool] exceeded my wildest expectations."

Penn Entertainment sold Barstool Sports for $1 back to Dave Portnoy, and he's now tasked with leading a media company that's losing millions of dollars. For the first six months of 2023, Barstool had a net loss of $16.1 million, according to Penn's Aug. 9 SEC filing.

Erika Ayers Badan, the new CEO of lifestyle brand Food52 and former CEO of Barstool Sports, is eager to borrow from the model that turned Barstool into an online cultural juggernaut.

Such is the case of the beautiful Sadie Brett Boyer, daughter of Ellen and Bo Boyer and niece of country singer Luke Bryan and his wife Caroline. Brett was just seven months old when she passed away from a congenital heart defect (CHD). Brett had also been diagnosed with Down Syndrome.

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Nicholas Nardini is a writer, editor, and a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University studying 20^th century American culture.

Erika Ayers Badan leaving her Barstool Sports CEO job

Last August, founder Dave Portnoy bought the company back for a $1.

In January 2016, it was announced that Peter Chernin's Chernin Group had purchased a 51% controlling stake in the company. Portnoy sold off another chuck of Barstool Sports in February 2020 to PENN Entertainment, who acquired a 36% stake, laying out a reported $163 million in cash and stock.

Prior to joining Barstool Sports, Nardini has held C-Suite and leading roles at media platforms such as Microsoft, AOL, Demand Media and Yahoo.

In 2020, after his partial sale of Barstool to Penn, Portnoy claimed to be worth around $100 million, according to the New York Times. As of mid-2024, however, Portnoy's net worth is estimated to be around $150 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Acquisition by Spotify

In June 2021, Cooper signed a deal worth $60 million to exclusively present the podcast on Spotify. However, Barstool still handles the show's merchandising.

According to a new securities filing, Portnoy acquired the sports media brand he founded for just $1. Of course, there are other pieces to the deal, but the shocking sale price (Penn spent $551 million to acquire Barstool) makes for an interesting end to that relationship.

Erika is currently married to squash instructor Yvain 'Swiss' Badan, with whom she shares a unique love story that began after her previous marriage to Brett Nardini, with whom she has two sons. Destiny brought Erika and Yvain together, leading them to make the bold decision to build a life together.