The rollout of ESPN and Fox's new streaming services this week represents a landmark moment for the sports industry, one where fans can finally start to expect a better bang for their buck.
Why it matters:Sports streaming was supposed to make it easier for fans to watch their favorite teams, but over the past two decades, live rights became unwieldy, expensive and complicated. Now, two of the world's biggest sports networks are teaming up to solve that problem.
Joe Gebbia — a co-founder of Airbnb who was named by President Trump this week to be the first U.S. chief design officer — tells Axios he wants to update federal websites to an "Apple Store-like experience."
"That means it's beautifully designed," Gebbia told us, "has great user experience, and it runs on modern software" — three strikes when it comes to dealing with today's government.
Why it matters: Airbnb — which over 17 years has become a ubiquitous verb for what used to be a classified-ad section at the back of the newspaper — applied those same three principles to renting a vacation home. "There's no reason why the government can't have that, too," Gebbia said.
