Episode 82: One-on-One with Underdog Founder Jeremy Levine
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with Jeremy Levine, one of the most influential people in fantasy. Jeremy founded and sold StarStreet (one of the first DFS sites) and DRAFT, and has just launched Underdog. They discuss the industry, the old days, best ball, his new product and lots more.
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TIMESTAMPS: Jeremy’s Start In Fantasy (1:20) | Playboy Partnership Stories (8:50) | Sports Betting Impact on DFS (13:40) | Discussing Rake in DFS (15:29) | Creating Draft (17:36) | What Happened To Draft (21:56) | Jeremy’s Entrepreneurial Ventures (24:01) | Underdog’s Big Picture (25:24) | Lessons From Draft (26:50) | State-by-State Legal Issues (28:04) | Listener Question (30:02)
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| 0:00.0 | So, Hello and welcome to episode 82 of the official Establish run |
| 0:21.3 | podcast. My name is Adam Levitan and I'm one of the co-founder here at ETR and today I am joined by a very very special |
| 0:29.2 | guest this is a young man who is one of the most influential people behind the scenes in all of fantasy |
| 0:35.0 | you remember him from Star Street you remember him from draft you now know him as |
| 0:39.4 | the founder and chairman of underdog fantasy. |
| 0:42.8 | You'll soon know him, I think, as Vinny Chase of the tequila business. |
| 0:46.2 | He's an excellent ping-pong player. |
| 0:48.0 | I know this because I myself from a world-class ping-pong player |
| 0:51.2 | and he was able to beat me. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, it's Jeremy Levine. |
| 0:55.0 | Jeremy, what's going on buddy? |
| 0:57.0 | What's up, man? |
| 0:58.0 | Fun to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | You guys done 82 episodes already? |
| 1:01.0 | Already. |
| 1:02.0 | One year in 82 episodes yeah run not bad first of all man |
| 1:07.1 | Congrats on the underdog launch very exciting we're going to get to all that |
| 1:11.0 | soon I wanted to give give people some background though |
| 1:15.2 | about you and about how we got here to this underdog spot. For those guys that don't know, |
| 1:22.2 | I think Star Street, I mean you can correct me if I'm wrong, was one of the first DFS platforms. I think you guys founded Star Street like way back in 2009, and that's like really, really early. How'd you come up with the idea originally like we're really into |
| 1:37.6 | Fantasy what were those very very early days like in DFS? Yeah, it was definitely early days. So we we started |
| 1:45.4 | Star Street basically in college, but incorporated it right when I |
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