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The Taekcast

Ep. 224 - Behind The Curtain At DraftKings w/ Former Employee Matt Birnbach

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Sports

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Davis Mattek is joined by Matt Birnbach from BettHouse to talk about his time at DraftKings, how the company started to transition to sports betting, Ethan-gate, the Soccer DFS product and much more.   www.patreon.com/taekcast www.sportsgrid.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do Devante Adams, George Kittle, Justin Jefferson, Debo Samuel, and Amon-Raw St. Brown all have in common?

0:06.7

Well, besides being some of the most reliable hands in the game of football, they're also the stars of the new Netflix series Receiver.

0:13.2

From the same team that brought you the show quarterback, receiver takes you deep inside the huddles, locker rooms, and personal lives of five of the best past

0:21.8

catchers and playmakers in the NFL. Catch receiver now playing only on Netflix.

0:43.6

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Tatecast.

0:44.7

My name is Davis-Matic.

0:47.1

You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

0:51.5

In this episode of the show, I'm joined by my old friend, Matt Bernbach.

0:57.9

He is a longtime guy in the DFS space. He used to work for Draft Street,

1:02.7

then was an employee of Draft Kings, and is now going to be transitioning his attention towards the betting space with a company that should be launching soon called Bet House.

1:07.4

And, you know, why I wanted to have Matt on the show was i i kind of love talking about

1:11.7

the history of dfs the history of draft kings how the space has evolved how sports betting has

1:17.4

changed the space and you know matt has a lot of firsthand experience in how the the sports

1:23.4

betting and the dfs industry has changed and also has a lot of good anecdotes from his time at

1:28.9

DK and we kind of pulled the curtain behind there a little bit. So I hope that you guys enjoy the

1:33.4

episode. If you want to support the show, we've been doing a lot of bonus episodes over on

1:37.6

patreon.com slash takecast or you can leave a rating or review on iTunes or wherever you listen to

1:43.9

podcast.

1:44.6

Now let's go ahead and get to the show.

1:47.3

All right, everyone, welcoming in my buddy, Matt Bernbach.

1:51.6

He used to work for draftkings.com and is going to be launching a new,

1:57.8

or is part of the launch of a new betting centric website and we'll definitely be able to

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