Mason Gordon

About Mason

• Followed his love of show business to L.A. with two goals: to date a wannabe-actress and to go to a movie premiere.
• He was working as a "bottom-feeder" at a production company when he came up with the idea of Slamball.
• Approached Mike Tollin, one of the producers at his company, and convinced him to get onboard.
• Tollin told him that rather than trying to invent a sport, he should try to get Slamball on TV and work backwards from there.
• As his idea gained traction, more and more people jumped to help him out; says that "validation" was a huge turning point.
• Eventually, they began building the Slamball courts-says everyone was showing up at 8 a.m. ready to work because they were so excited.
• It took 18 months to evolve his "goofy" idea from a doodle on the back of a napkin into a nationally broadcast sport.
• Says that while it can be difficult to not have a prior blueprint to follow, when you have a strange or new idea, you need to run with it.