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Things like SXSW and Whole Foods started really small; so they wouldn't even be around if bad things happened. They are successful growth stories, building up over decades of existence.

F1 is inherently different, I think. It's not starting small, it's already huge. The money, the egos, the challenges, etc are larger than life from day 1. It's more like the Olympics than SXSW or WF, and like the Olympics it often comes with huge problems. I just hope that the investors realize this, and don't get thrown off when the headaches happen. This wasn't the first and won't be the last roadblock to the November race. Far from it. But pulling it off puts you in a very exclusive group forever.