Jeremy Bloom has lived more than one extraordinary chapter. He competed as a freestyle skier at two Winter Olympics, played in the NFL as a wide receiver, fought a landmark battle against NCAA amateurism rules, and then built a career as a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. When Jeremy Bloom joined Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour, the conversation drew on all of it — but the conversation's center of gravity was the role artificial intelligence is now playing in reshaping how sports are officiated and judged.
The result is a thoughtful exchange about fairness, innovation, and what it means to advocate for change — whether in a courtroom challenging a powerful institution or in a boardroom building technology that removes human error from critical athletic moments.
About Jeremy Bloom
Jeremy Bloom represented the United States in freestyle skiing at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, earning World Cup victories along the way. His career also took him to the NFL, where he was drafted as a wide receiver. But his name became widely known in sports policy circles when the NCAA ruled him ineligible for college football after he had accepted skiing sponsorships — a decision he publicly challenged and that contributed to the broader conversation that would eventually lead to the NIL era in college athletics.
After his athletic career, Bloom founded Integrate, a marketing software company, and Wish of a Lifetime, a nonprofit dedicated to fulfilling the wishes of senior citizens. More recently, he has been working at the intersection of sports and technology, including the development of AI-powered judging tools designed to bring consistency and fairness to sports where human subjectivity has historically played too large a role.
What Jeremy Bloom and Sean Kelly Talked About
- How AI officiating technology — including Bloom's work with Owl AI — is designed to reduce human bias and error in sports judging
- The case for AI referees and judges in subjective sports like freestyle skiing and snowboarding, where scoring discretion has long influenced outcomes
- Why the $16 billion sports betting industry has created new and serious threats to referee safety and sporting integrity
- The future of sports broadcasting, including the shift toward streaming platforms and what that means for global audiences
- Bloom's firsthand account of his NCAA eligibility fight and how decades of 'amateurism' policies denied compensation to college athletes
- How one athlete's public stand contributed to the eventual changes that gave college athletes the right to profit from their name, image, and likeness
- The vision and mission behind Wish of a Lifetime — and why Bloom has made service to senior citizens a central part of his post-athletics life
Why This Conversation Matters
Jeremy Bloom brings a perspective that is genuinely rare: he has been an elite competitor, a policy challenger, a company founder, and a philanthropist — and each of those roles informs how he thinks about fairness and innovation. His conversation with Sean Kelly is a compelling case for why athletes who stay curious about the systems around their sport often end up reshaping those systems long after their playing days are over.
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About Sean Kelly & the Digital Social Hour
Sean Kelly is an entrepreneur and the host of the Digital Social Hour, one of the fastest-growing interview podcasts in the world, where he sits down with entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and cultural voices for candid, long-form conversations. The show draws over 100 million views a month across platforms. Explore more guest features on SeanKelly.io.
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