{"id":11694,"date":"2026-04-06T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinsta-stag-advertisingweek.md-staging.com\/aw360\/from-stem-to-sports-culture-how-mb-gambke-built-barstools-partnership-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:39:29","slug":"from-stem-to-sports-culture-how-mb-gambke-built-barstools-partnership-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinsta-stag-advertisingweek.md-staging.com\/aw360\/news\/from-stem-to-sports-culture-how-mb-gambke-built-barstools-partnership-playbook\/11694\/","title":{"rendered":"From STEM to Sports Culture: How MB Gambke Built Barstool\u2019s Partnership Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this episode of <em>Future is Female<\/em>, MB Gambke, SVP of Partnerships and Marketing at Barstool Sports, shares her unconventional path from engineering student to one of the architects behind Barstool\u2019s explosive brand partnerships. 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