Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons is an American sports podcaster, sportswriter, and cultural critic who is the founder and managing director of The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website and podcast network he launched in 2016. He hosts The Bill Simmons Podcast, which is noted as the most downloaded sports podcast of all time, and also serves as head of podcast innovation and monetization for Spotify, which acquired The Ringer in 2020. In October 2025, several Ringer podcasts including The Bill Simmons Show were acquired by Netflix for exclusive video distribution. He previously founded and served as editor-in-chief of Grantland at ESPN.
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