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SnapBack Sports Pod

Draftkings Founder, Matt Kalish joins the Podcast!

SnapBack Sports Pod

SnapBack Sports

Sports, Basketball

510.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Matt is a trailblazer in the gaming space and Abe and Jack chatted with him for 45 minutes detailing the rise of DK to its' current day.

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0:00.0

What's up fam, I'm Eroshack Settlement.

0:02.0

Join me today and as always my coast and long time best friend Abe Granoff and a special guest.

0:08.0

It is Mr. Matt Kalish from DraftKings.

0:11.3

Matt, normally I ask Abe what's on his mind, but we'll throw it over to you.

0:16.1

What is on your mind today?

0:21.2

You know, before getting distracted by the Celtics news with like, you know,

0:25.9

Durant Jalen and all of that potential nonsense, I would say Rainmaker's football and getting geared up in general for the NFL season was like my number one kind of preoccupation lately.

0:38.2

By the way, congrats on the Underdog fantasy news. I just saw that like on my way and big thank you.

0:44.8

Thank you.

0:45.8

And raise lots of momentum so it's pretty amazing.

0:48.1

What's like CEO of winning at Underdog in tail?

0:51.8

Exactly.

0:52.8

A lot of losing.

0:53.8

Hey, you got to lose to learn and to get better, but it really is just, you know, having fun, putting out some picks.

1:04.0

And I think what something we'll talk about is this community aspect of sports betting.

1:09.1

You guys are the biggest player, but a lot of other companies are biting at your heels and you've nailed this social tab in the app.

1:16.5

So I'm excited to dive into all of that, but let's give some people some contacts.

1:21.3

Founded draft Kings, draft Kings, the biggest player in the world as it comes to the sports betting market here in the US.

1:28.1

What was it like just starting DK being in from the start and have you always wanted to kind of play in this world?

1:36.8

Yeah, definitely.

1:37.8

I really got into, I guess, skill gaming starting with poker and college.

1:42.9

And, you know, I was playing season long fantasy baseball while I was doing distance running at Columbia.

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