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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Building a Revolutionary Business With Jason Robins: Cofounder & CEO, DraftKings | #ThePlaybook 486

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Jason Robins, Co-Founder and CEO of DraftKings, sits down to chat about: [:30] - Why he used to think that following your passion in business was a fool’s errand [2:46] - How the proliferation of sports gambling has led to a renewed focus on maintaining integrity in sports [7:09] - How DraftKings has evolved into a platform that takes over a million bets on a single game [14:04] - His single best piece of advice for building a company that disrupts an entire industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have the incredible Jason Robbins, CEO and co-founder

0:05.6

of DraftKings.

0:06.6

He's won more 40 under 40s than in the other CEO that I know.

0:10.9

But he's a team player and he subscribes to why we are kind to our future selves.

0:17.3

Do good deeds, Jason Robbins here on the playbook.

0:21.8

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:23.8

For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs

0:29.2

to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions

0:34.9

on the field and in the boardroom.

0:37.8

I'm your host, David Meltzer.

0:39.7

I am so excited.

0:40.7

I have Jason Robbins, CEO, co-founder of the incredible company, DraftKings.

0:46.1

And I am just so excited, Jason, have you on because it's very rare in the entrepreneurial

0:50.6

space that I get to talk about two of my favorite things, gambling, fantasy, football.

0:58.1

And it's football season, just to put a little time mark on it.

1:01.2

We saw a great game last night to launch the 2022 season.

1:06.0

And when you were younger, did you think that this is where your career would end up

1:12.2

with one of the biggest companies with the biggest growth potential probably in the world?

1:17.9

Well, I appreciate you saying that when I was really young, I was still young and naive

1:24.0

enough to hope I could actually be playing the games.

1:26.9

But I learned pretty soon that that was probably not in the cards for me, although I still

1:31.8

did enjoy playing as much as I could do high school.

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